Management

Management :                  ME Storage Manager (MESM) HTML5 GUI, CLI, REST

VMware vCenter:             Support VMware vCenter plugin to manage the ME4 arrays through vCenter.

Scripting:

CLI

Microsoft PowerShell API

RESTful API

Supported host OS:

Windows 2016 and 2012 R2

RHEL 6.9 and 7.4

SLES 12.3

VMware 6.5 and 6.0

Virtualization integration:

VMware vSphere (ESXi)

vCenter; SRM

Microsoft Hyper-V

Base System Power

Power/wattage:            580W

Heat dissipation:          1980 BTU

Voltage:                         100-240 VAC

Frequency:                    50/60 Hz

Data Optimization:

Auto-tiering:               Up to 3 primary (media-based) tiers

RAID support:            RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 or Adapt; any combination of RAID levels can exist in single array

Adapt:                        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 snapshots per array

Data Mobility and Migration

Replication:

Replicates with other ME4 Series Arrays

Asynchronous block via FC or iSCSI

Target/source relationships may be one-to-many or many-to-one

Volume copy:                         Copy complete standalone volumes

Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Security

Business continuity:               VMware Site Recovery Manager

Data-at-rest encryption:

Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) in SSD or HDD formats

Full Disk Encryption (FCE) based on AES-256

Drives certified to FIPS 140-2 Level 2

Key manager:                         Internal controller key management