Dell PowerVault ME5024

The Dell PowerVault ME5024 is a purpose-built 2U rack-mountable storage expansion enclosure designed to address the density and performance demands of small-to-medium businesses and edge data center environments. The ME5024 accommodates up to 24 SFF (2.5-inch) drive bays supporting a hybrid mix of SAS HDDs, SAS SSDs, and NVMe SSDs, enabling organizations to tier workloads across media types within a single compact chassis. The enclosure integrates into the PowerVault ME5 Series family, leveraging Dell's Storage Center management software for unified provisioning, monitoring, and tiering across scale-out configurations.

Architecturally, the ME5024 connects to ME5 Series controller enclosures via high-speed SAS expansion links, providing non-disruptive scalability without reconfiguration downtime. The system supports dual-controller active-active architecture for continuous availability, with each controller offering 32Gb Fibre Channel ports for low-latency SAN fabric attachment and 25GbE iSCSI ports for IP-based storage networking. This dual-protocol support allows organizations to standardize on a single storage platform while serving both FC and Ethernet-attached host environments simultaneously, reducing infrastructure complexity.

The ME5024 is optimized for secondary storage workloads including backup repositories, data archives, virtual machine datastores, and database staging environments. Its dense 24-bay form factor maximizes rack space efficiency, and support for large-capacity SAS HDDs enables cost-effective high-capacity configurations suitable for growing unstructured data sets. Integration with VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Linux environments is validated through Dell's extensive interoperability matrix, making the ME5024 a reliable building block for heterogeneous virtualized infrastructure.

Ideal for

• Secondary backup storage target for enterprise backup solutions such as Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, and Dell EMC NetWorker, providing high-capacity SAS disk pools
• Virtual machine datastore expansion for VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V clusters requiring additional block storage capacity without controller replacement
• Database staging and dev/test environments needing tiered SAS SSD and SAS HDD storage accessible over 32Gb FC or 25GbE iSCSI fabrics
• Edge data center deployments where rack space is constrained and a single 2U enclosure must deliver both capacity and connectivity redundancy
• Archive and compliance storage for industries such as healthcare and finance requiring dense, reliable long-term block storage with dual-controller high availability
• Scale-out storage expansion for growing SMB environments, incrementally adding the ME5024 to existing ME5 Series controller enclosures without service interruption

Technical specifications

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