PowerVault ME5 Virtualization Solution Brief

To fully realize the benefits of virtualization, your underlying storage must be as agile as your virtual machines. However, many organizations find themselves choosing between prohibitively expensive high-end arrays or budget solutions that lack critical reliability.

The "PowerVault ME5 for Virtualization" solution brief demonstrates how to bridge that gap. Discover a storage platform that delivers the speed and block-based performance required for modern virtual environments, with the simplicity and price point small to medium businesses need.

Key Highlights:

Affordable Enterprise Performance: High-speed, block-based storage specifically designed for SMBs, branch offices, and departmental use cases.

High Availability: Engineered for 99.999% availability to ensure business continuity for critical virtualized applications.

Effortless Management: Features an intuitive interface and straightforward design to reduce administrative overhead and complexity.

Hypervisor Compatibility: Full support and recommended practices for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.

Flexible Connectivity: Versatile connectivity options to integrate seamlessly into existing SAN or DAS infrastructures.

Modern Data Protection: Built-in capabilities to safeguard data integrity and support rapid recovery.

Optimized Provisioning: Best practices for storage allocation to maximize disk utilization and VM performance.

Network Best Practices: Guidance on configuration to ensure low-latency communication between hosts and storage arrays.

Workload Consolidation: Enables the consolidation of diverse workloads onto a single, cost-effective platform to improve agility.

Performance Tuning: Strategic recommendations for setting queue depths and host-side caching to optimize I/O.

Scalable Architecture: Designed to grow alongside the organization, providing a foundation that is "built for VMs yet priced for business."