Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Deployment Guide

Select the storage type

When you first access the wizard, you are prompted to select the type of storage to use for your environment.

Read through the options and make your selection, and then click Next to proceed.

• Virtual storage supports the following features:
  • Tiering
  • Snapshots
  • Replication
  • Thin provisioning
  • One pool per installed RAID controller and up to 16 disk groups per pool
  • Maximum 1 PB usable capacity per pool with large pools feature enabled
  • RAID levels 1, 5, 6, 10, and ADAPT
  • Adding individual disks to increase RAID capacity is only supported for ADAPT disk groups
  • Capacity can be increased by adding additional RAID disk groups
  • Page size is static (4 MB)
  • SSD read cache
  • Global and/or dynamic hot spares
• Linear storage supports the following features:
  • Up to 32 pools per installed RAID controller and one disk group per pool
  • RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50, ADAPT, and NRAID
  • Adding individual disks to increase RAID capacity is supported for RAID 0, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50, and ADAPT disk groups
  • Configurable chunk size per disk group
  • Global, dedicated, and/or dynamic hot spares