Data sheet The latest MSA array features two high-performance controllers with support for the industry’s latest Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and SAS host interfaces. The MSA 2040 delivers mid-market features to entry SAN customers wanting to utilize the latest spinning or solid state drive technologies. Simple to deploy and simple to manage. Changing storage requirements have raised the bar for entry shared storage arrays. The MSA 2040 uniquely addresses HP ProLiant and BladeSystem server customers’ shared storage and data protection needs, reducing total cost of ownership while dramatically increasing performance and availability utilizing technologies such as SSDs, Self-Encrypted Drives (SEDs), and a host on advanced data services previously only available on mid-range and enterprise disk arrays. The HP MSA 2040 Storage arrays are positioned to provide an excellent value for customers needing increased performance to support initiatives such as consolidation and virtualization. The MSA 2040 delivers this performance by leveraging a new, fourth generation, controller architecture with more processing resources, 4 GB cache per controller and four host ports per controller standard. The controller architecture delivers incredible performance and allows users to extract full benefits from the latest storage technologies such as SSDs.

Data sheet | HP MSA 2040 Storage Product key benefits Simple: Flexible architecture. Easy to setup. Easy to manage • Choice of 8 Gb/16 Gb FC, 1GbE/10GbE iSCSI, and 6 Gb/12 Gb SAS to match the configuration needs of your SAN infrastructure. • Deploy single or dual controllers depending on high-availability and budgetary requirements. • Select large or small form factor disk enclosures with choice of high-performance SSDs, SEDs, Enterprise-class SAS or SAS Midline drives based on application, performance, and budgetary requirements. Drive types may be mixed in any enclosure. • Integrated setup...

Data sheet | HP MSA 2040 Storage Virtualization features The 4th generation of MSA provides support for a powerful set of data services enabled with a new virtualized array system architecture. Existing MSA 2040 customers have access to these new features via a firmware upgrade. Features supported in virtualization firmware are: • Thin Provisioning. This feature allows storage allocation of physical storage resources only once they are consumed by an application. • SSD Read Cache. Improves random read performance by allowing an SSD to be utilized as an extension of the MSA 2040 controller cache....

Data sheet | HP MSA 2040 Storage Technical specifications HP MSA 2040 Storage Drive description Up to 199 SFF SAS/MDL SAS/SSD/SED or 96 LFF SAS/MDL SAS/SED Maximum including base array and expansion, depending on model Drive type Please refer to QuickSpecs for detailed information on supported hard drives: h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14603_div/14603_div.pdf Supported 768 TB maximum including expansion, depending on model Storage expansion options HP MSA 2040 3.5-inch LFF disk enclosure or D2700 2.5-inch SFF disk enclosure MSA 2040 supports up to 7 disk enclosures Storage host interface...

Data sheet | HP MSA 2040 Storage MSA Software and Data Services HP MSA Snapshot Software HP MSA Snapshot Software services enable increased data protection by creating recovery points for your data, taking a “picture” of your data at a specific point in time. Snapshots are then maintained even as data continues to change. In the event of a failure, you can recover to any previous snapshot. Snapshots are a great complement to tape or disk backup strategy. MSA Snapshot functionality is controller-based so no host resources are used. MSA 2040 Copy Services utilize Copy-on-Write capabilities when...

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