Description

The Dell PowerVault ME5012 is a high-performance, entry-level storage array designed to meet the needs of small to medium-sized businesses looking for affordable, reliable, and easy-to-manage SAN and DAS solutions. Built with simplicity and scalability in mind, the ME5012 delivers a powerful combination of performance, capacity, and flexibility. The Dell PowerVault ME5012 provides a robust storage solution tailored to businesses seeking enterprise-class features in an affordable and compact platform. Its flexibility, performance, and expandability make it a solid foundation for demanding workloads including virtualization, database management, and file sharing.

Key Features

• Flexible Storage Architecture: Supports both block and file data storage across iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and SAS protocols.
• High Performance: Dual-active controllers, each with 16 GB of cache (32 GB total), delivering up to 320,000 IOPS.
• Scalability: Supports up to 4 PB raw capacity with expansion enclosures.
• Management Simplicity: Integrated with Dell PowerVault Manager for intuitive storage management.
• Data Protection: Includes RAID support, snapshots, remote replication, and encryption.
• All-Flash and Hybrid Options: Optimized for performance with all-flash configurations or cost-efficiency with hybrid setups.

Specifications

• Form Factor: 2U rack-mount chassis
• Drive Bays: 12 x 3.5″ SFF
• Supported Drive Types:
  • NLSAS 7.2K 3.5” – 4TB, 8TB, 12TB, 16TB, 18TB, 20TB, 22TB
  • SAS 10K 2.5” (with 3.5″ adapters) – 1.2TB, 2.4TB, 2.4TB FIPS
  • SAS SSD (with 3.5″ adapters) – 960GB, 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 1.92TB FIPS, 3.84TB, 3.84TB FIPS, 7.68TB
• Controllers
  • Dual-active controllers each with 4-core Intel processor, 8GB of memory and 16GB for cache, management port & SAS expansion port
  • Network Options:
    • 4x 10Gb Base-T/RJ45 Ethernet iSCSI SAN
    • 4x 10/25Gb SFP28 Ethernet iSCSI SAN
    • 4x 16/32Gb SFP+ Fibre Channel (FC) SAN
    • 4x 12Gb HD-SAS ports Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
• Expansion options: Up to 264 drives using three (3) ME484 enclosures (5U, 84x 3.5/2.5)
  • Up to nine (9) ME412 each with 12 x 3.5″ drives (120 total drives with ME50124)
  • Up to nine (9) ME424 each with 24 x 2.5″ drives (228 total drives with ME5012)
  • Up to three (3) ME484, each with 84x 3.5/2.5 drives (264 total drives with ME5012)
  • Combinations of ME412/ME424/ME484 expansion enclosures are not supported
• Power Supplies: Dual (2) 580 watt power supplies (100-240VAC)
• Software Features:
  • ADAPT RAID
  • Auto-tiering
  • CloudIQ integration
  • Key management
  • Management GUI
  • Replication
  • Snapshots
  • SSD Read Cache
  • Thin provisioning
  • Volume Copy
• Supported RAID types: 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 or ADAPT
• Dimensions:
  • Height: 2U / 87.9 mm (3.46 in)
  • Width: 483 mm (19.01 in)
  • Depth: 547.8 mm (21.56 in)
• Weight: 32 kg  / 71 lb
• Operating System Support:
  • Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, 7.8
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15.2, 12.5
  • VMware ESXi 7.0, 6.7
  • Citrix XenServer 8.x, 7.x