Dell PowerVault ME484 Expansion Enclosure

Meeting the needs of small to medium-sized businesses, Dell’s PowerVault ME5 Storage Array system can be adapted to support a number of different workloads with easy expansion and setup. There are 3x base chassis to choose from and 3x expansion enclosures are available to increase capacity, including the 5U Dell PowerVault ME484 Expansion Enclosure. This system supports up to 84x 3.5” drive bays compatible with SAS at 12Gb/s.
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Dell PowerVault ME484 Expansion Enclosure - System Overview

Description

Dell PowerVault ME484 Expansion Enclosure front panel

Offering replication and the ability to quickly rebuild replacement drives in the event of a failure, Dell’s ME5 lineup includes 2U and 5U base storage arrays. Designed for Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) Applications the system can be easily expanded through the 12Gb/s expansion protocol shared by the PowerVault ME5 appliances. The 2U base systems can be outfitted with single or dual controller, while the 5U Dell PowerVault ME5084 Storage Array comes with dual controllers by default. Options for the controller host interface include Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, and SAS, with 8x ports per array.

Compatible PowerVault ME5 Base Units

Dell PowerVault ME484 Expansion Enclosure rear view

The Dell ME484 Expansion Enclosure can be added to any of the base arrays 2U or 5U for dramatically increased capacity. When attached to the 5U ME5084 up to 3x expansion enclosures can be used providing up to 8PB of storage. This easy to manage system makes data recovery, replication and mirroring easy with the PowerVault Manager a graphical, web-based utility to help Administrators monitor, manage, and quickly resolve issues. PowerVault Manager asl has a plugin to seamlessly connect with VMware vCenter. CloudIQ Storage Analytics provides an AI infused utility to using machine learning, telemetry and predictive analytics for proactive health monitoring.

Dell PowerVault ME484 Expansion Enclosure - Specifications

Chassis Overview

    Rack Size

  • 2U or 5U

    • Power/Wattage

  • 2200W/200-240VAC/7507 BTU

    • Controllers

  • 2 hot-swappable per chassis (dual active)
  • Single/dual controller support for 2U
  • Dual controller support for 5U

    • Processor

  • Intel Xeon Processor

    • Internal Storage

  • 84 x 3.5” drive bays (12Gb SAS)

    • System Memory

  • 8GB for controller and 16GB for cache (24GB total)

Expansion Capacity

    Expansion Enclosures

  • ME412: 12 x 3.5” drive bays (12Gb SAS)
  • ME424: 24 x 2.5” drive bays (12Gb SAS)
  • ME484: 84 x 3.5” drive bays (12Gb SAS)

    • NAS Support

  • Supported with NX Series Windows NAS appliance

    • Storage Media

    SAS and NL-SAS drives; different drive types, transfer rates, rotational speeds can be mixed in the same system:

  • NLSAS 7.2K 3.5” – 4TB, 8TB, 12TB, 16TB, 16TB FIPS, 20TB, 22TB, 24TB
  • SAS 10K 2.5” – 1.2TB, 2.4TB, 2.4TB FIPS
  • SSD – 1.6TB MU, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 3.84TB FIPS, 7.68TB RI

Network and Expansion I/O

    Host Interface

  • FC, iSCSI (optical or BaseT), SAS

    • Max 32Gb FC Ports

  • 8 per array (support auto-negotiate to 16Gb)

    • Max 25Gb iSCSI Ports

  • 8 SFP+ or SFP28 ports per array

    • Max 10Gb iSCSI Ports

  • 8 BaseT ports per array (only support auto negotiate to 1Gb)

    • Max 12Gb SAS Ports

  • 8 12Gb SAS ports

    • Max Management Ports

  • 2 per array (1Gb BASE-T)

    • Disk Expansion Protocol

  • 12Gb SAS

    • Disk Interface Expansion Ports

  • 2 x 12Gb SAS (wide-Port) per array (1 port per controller)
  • Up to 9 2U expansion enclosures per 2U base array
  • Up to 3 5U expansion enclosures per 2U base array
  • Up to 3 5U expansion enclosures per 5U base array

Functional

    Array Configurations

  • All-flash, hybrid flash, HDD only arrays

    • Storage Format

  • Native block-level SAN or DAS

Data Optimization

    Auto-tiering

  • Up to 3 primary (media-based) tiers

    • RAID Support

  • RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, or ADAPT RAID; any combination of RAID levels can exist in single array

    • ADAPT RAID

  • Distributed erasure coding that reduces rebuild times when drive failures occur

    • Thin Provisioning

  • Active by default on all volumes, operates at full performance across all features

    • Snapshots

  • 1024 maximum re-direct-on-write snapshots per array

Management

    Management

  • PowerVault Manager HTML5 GUI element manager, CLI, OpenManage Enterprise 3.9

    • VMware vCenter

  • VMware vCenter plugin to manage ME5 arrays through vCenter

    • Scripting

  • CLI API
  • Redfish/Swordfish REST API

    • Supported Host OS

  • Windows 2022, 2019 and 2016
  • RHEL 9.2, 8.8, 8.2 and 7.8
  • SLES 15.2 and 12.5
  • VMware 8.0 U1, 7.0 and 6.7
  • Citrix XenServer 8.x and 7.x

    • Virtualization Integration

  • VMware vSphere (ESXi)
  • vCenter; SRM
  • Microsoft Hyper-V

Dimensions

    Form Factor: 5U
    Depth: 97.47 cm (38.31 inches)
    Height: 8.79 cm (8.75 inches)
    Width: 48.30 cm (19.01 inches)
    Weight (empty): 64.00 kg (141.00 lbs) without drives
    Weight (maximum configuration): 130.00 kg (287.00 lbs)

Dell PowerVault ME484 Expansion Enclosure - Documentation

Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Storage Specs Sheet Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Storage System User Manual Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Setup Guide Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Storage System Deployment Guide Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Storage System Support Matrix Dell PowerVault ME5 Series vSphere Client Plug-In User Guide Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Storage System CLI Reference Guide Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Storage System Administrators Guide Dell CloudIQ Data Sheet
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