Dell ECS EX5000

Overview

The Dell ECS EX5000 is a next-generation, high-density object storage appliance designed to bridge traditional and modern workloads. It delivers scalable, software-defined storage for unstructured data, spanning S3, HDFS, and archival use cases. The EX5000 offers a turnkey, rack-scale solution that can grow into exabyte-class deployments while maintaining performance, resilience, and manageability.

Features

• High scalability: supports growing unstructured data volumes with seamless scale-out capability
• Dense disk architecture: supports many drives per node to maximize capacity per rack
• Hot-swappable drives: allows service without disrupting operations
• Global namespace: unified management across distributed systems
• Multi-protocol support: object, file, and archival protocols in one platform
• High availability and fault tolerance: no single point of failure
• Flexible deployment: supports single or multi-rack cluster architectures
• Tiering & data protection: integrated policies for retention, replication, compression, and erasure coding
• Metadata caching: optional SSDs to accelerate metadata operations
• Enterprise security: encryption, role-based access, audit logging
• Software-defined architecture: decoupled hardware and software layers

Specification