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Affordable PowerVault ME412-expansion storage, purpose-built and optimized for SAN/DAS simplicity and accelerated performance.
All-around simplicity
PowerVault ME4 Series provides features that simplify tasks such as system installation, configuration, and serviceability enabling IT generalists to manage resources more efficiently and focus on the bigger picture.
-Simple to order with all-inclusive software
-Customer installable/configurable in 15 minutes
-Intuitive web-based (HTML5) management
-Easily expandable without disruption
Get all-inclusive enterprise-class capabilities
PowerVault ME4 Series storage arrays deliver all the software you’ll need to store, manage, and protect your data:
ADAPT (Distributed RAID): Improved data protection functionality that delivers faster drive rebuild times
Thin Provisioning: Allocate and consume physical storage capacity as needed in disk pools
Snapshots: Easily recover data with point-in-time copies
Replication: Replicate data to any global location
Volume Copy: Enables seamless volume relocation and disk-based backup and recovery
SSD Read Cache: Increase execution speed of applications by caching previously read data
3-Level Auto-tiering: Optimizes data performance with less expense
Virtualization integration: Integrate ME4 arrays with VMware vSphere and vCenter SRM and Microsoft Hyper-V.
Improved hardware and performance
PowerVault ME Series storage is simple, fast, and affordable. With dual core Intel Broadwell processors, active-active controllers, more drives and a faster back end, ME Series storage delivers:
-Up to 320K IOPs performance
-Up to 5500 MB/sec bandwidth
-Up to 4PB capacity (Use HDDs to 4PB in three 5U 84 drive dense enclosures)
-Performance at scale with 12G SAS backend
The ME4 Series base models include dual hot-swappable Intel controllers, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and SAS protocols, support for 2U and 5U expansion enclosure options. Implement the PowerVault ME Series as shared SAN storage or direct attach them to Dell PowerEdge Servers.
Simplified data management
The PowerVault ME4 Series brings radical simplicity and exceptional affordability to the entry market. It’s simple to install and configure, comes with all-inclusive software and includes an intuitive web-based HTML5 GUI for “anywhere” management. ME4 Series storage flexibly configures as DAS or SAN, all flash or hybrid, and you can mix HDD and SSD drives in the configuration. It also includes built-in compatibility with Microsoft and VMware hypervisors simplifying physical and virtual resource management.
| Expansion enclosures | 12 x 3.5” drive bays (12Gb SAS) |
| Rack size | 2U |
| Height | 8.79 cm (3.46 inches) |
| Width | 48.30 cm (19.01 inches) |
| Depth | 60.29 cm (23.74 inches) |
| Weight at max configuration | 28.00 kg (62.00 lbs) |
| weight empty | 4.80 kg (10.56 lbs) without drives |
| Host interface | FC, iSCSI, SAS (supports simultaneous multiprotocol FC/iSCSI) |
| Max 16Gb FC ports | 8 per array (support auto-negotiate to 8Gb) |
| Max 10Gb iSCSI ports | 8 SFP+ or BaseT ports per array (BaseT only support auto negotiate to 1Gb) |
| Max 12Gb SAS ports | 8 12Gb SAS ports |
| Max multi-protocol ports | 4 ports 16Gb FC SFP+ |
| Power/wattage | 580W |
| Heat dissipation | 1980 BTU |
| Voltage 100-240 VAC | 100-240 VAC |
| Frequency | 50/60 Hz |
| Operating temperature | 41 - 95°F (5 - 35°C) |
| Non-operating temperature | -40 - 149°F (-40 - 65°C) |
| Operating humidity ranges (non-condensing) | 10% to 80% with 29°C (84.2°F) maximum dew point |
| Non-operating humidity (noncondensing) | 5% to 95% with 33°C (91°F) maximum dew point |
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