Dell PowerVault ME4012 Storage Array
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

Optimized for SAN and DAS

PowerVault ME4 Series is purpose-built and optimized for SAN and DAS virtualized workloads. Connecting the PowerVault ME4 Series to a Dell PowerEdge Server to address the challenges of server capacity expansion or to a SAN for flexibility and scalability ensures that business applications will always get high-speed and reliable access to their data - without compromise.

• Direct-attach to Dell PowerEdge Servers over SAS, FC, or iSCSI
• Consolidate SAN storage through a single port over FC or iSCSI

Protect your data

Keep your valuable information safe with these PowerVault ME Series features:

• Remote Replication: Replicate data to any global location that includes mirroring thin provisioned pools
• Snapshots: Easily recover files after accidental deletion or alteration with point-in-time copies of data
• Virtual Disk Copy (VDC): Enable quick and seamless virtual disk relocation and disk-based backup and recovery with a full, replicated copy of source data
• Self-encrypting drives (SEDs): Render data useless to unauthorised users with drive-level encryption, even if the drive has been removed from the enclosure

Improved hardware and performance

Designed as the next-generation successor to the popular PowerVault MD3 array, PowerVault ME Series storage is simpler, faster, and as 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
• Performance at scale with 12G SAS backend

The ME4 Series base models include dual hot-swappable Intel controllers, iSCSI, Fiber 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.

Speed recovery with Adapt

PowerVault ME4 Series Adapt software protects data by dynamically distributing it across pools of drives. In the event of a drive failure, Adapt will identify the critical data and dynamically rebalance the data so the array can return to an optimal state faster than it would in the typical RAID environment.

• Saves time and money
• Faster drive rebuilds
• Add just the capacity you need
• Supports up to 1PB capacity or up to 128 drives.

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