Dell PowerVault ME5
Alliance Partner: |
Dell Technologies |
Alliance Product: |
PowerVault ME5 |
Program Category: |
Veeam Ready Repository - Primary Target |
Category Description: |
Solutions certified as a primary backup target. Passing all compatibility/functional tests, as well as extensive performance tests for both backup and restore operations |
Article ID: |
391 |
Veeam Product(s): |
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Features and Attributes: |
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Publication date: |
2022-04-20 |
Last modified date: |
2022-04-20 |
This Veeam Ready test was performed with storage having a configuration that includes SSD/Flash. As such, this classification only applies to similar configurations in which the same amount or more SSD drives are used. The use of non-SSD drives may negatively impact performance.
Product Details
Model number: PowerVault ME5024 25G iSCSI
Storage Category: RAID Storage Array, Hybrid Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 12x 2TB NL-SAS HDDs, 4x 1.92TB SSDs
Storage configuration: Pool A: SSDs in RAID6. Pool B: NL-SAS drives in ADAPT
Firmware version: ME5.1.0.0.0
Connection protocol and speed: 10 GbE iSCSI
Additional support: All configurations of Dell PowerVault ME5024 with specifications equivalent or greater than the above
General product family overview:
Dell PowerVault ME5 Series storage implements a block architecture for Backup and VMware virtualization workloads with native support for iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and SAS protocols. Each system leverages dual storage processors (single storage processor systems are available) and a full 12Gb SAS back-end. Additional storage capacity is added via Disk Array Enclosures (DAEs) while Distributed RAID (ADAPT) delivers faster drive re-build times. And all ME5 Series arrays are managed by an integrated HTML5 web-based GUI.
Storage Category: RAID Storage Array, Hybrid Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 12x 2TB NL-SAS HDDs, 4x 1.92TB SSDs
Storage configuration: Pool A: SSDs in RAID6. Pool B: NL-SAS drives in ADAPT
Firmware version: ME5.1.0.0.0
Connection protocol and speed: 10 GbE iSCSI
Additional support: All configurations of Dell PowerVault ME5024 with specifications equivalent or greater than the above
General product family overview:
Dell PowerVault ME5 Series storage implements a block architecture for Backup and VMware virtualization workloads with native support for iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and SAS protocols. Each system leverages dual storage processors (single storage processor systems are available) and a full 12Gb SAS back-end. Additional storage capacity is added via Disk Array Enclosures (DAEs) while Distributed RAID (ADAPT) delivers faster drive re-build times. And all ME5 Series arrays are managed by an integrated HTML5 web-based GUI.
Veeam Testing Configuration
Veeam Build Number: 11.0.1.1261 P20220302
Job Settings:
| Deduplication: | Enabled |
| Compression: | Optimal |
| Storage Optimization: | Local target |
Repository Settings:
| Repository Type: | Windows |
| Align backup file blocks: | Enabled |
| Decompress before storing: | Disabled |
| Per-VM Backup Files: | Disabled |
Vendor recommended configuration
Vendor Settings:
- Caching used – Yes
- Read/write caching –Yes, 16Gb Cache per controller. Albeit IO is flushed to disks quickly and does not spend a lot of time in cache.
- Networking – MTU=8860
- Multipathing / link aggregation used – Yes, MPIO
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