HPE MSA 2060 Storage

HPE MSA Storage

The HPE MSA 2060 is a flash-ready hybrid storage system designed to deliver hands-free, affordable application acceleration for small and remote office deployments. Dont let the low cost fool you. It gives you the combination of simplicity, flexibility, and advanced features you may not expect in an entry-priced array. Start small and scale as needed with any combination of solid state drives (SSDs), high-performance Enterprise SAS HDDs, or lower-cost Midline SAS HDDs. With the ability to deliver 325,000 IOPS, the new MSA .2060 is up to 45% faster than its prior generation with ample horsepower for even the most demanding workloads.

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Whats new

New 6th Gen MSA storage architecture (HW + SW) that provides a modernized HW platform with more resources for features such as Tiering 2.0, a new RAID protection scheme (MSA-DP+), a new task-optimized web interface, and highly optimized data management through a new RESTful interface.
Improved array performance that provides more IOPS, bandwidth and backend connectivity; up to 45% increase on IOPS, and up to 70% improvement on sequential throughput vs MSA Gen 5 (depending on protocol).
Capable of delivering over 325,000 IOPS for affordable application acceleration for small to medium-sized businesses.
Simple made simpler with a new disk group type (MSA-DP+) that increases availability, dramatically decreases RAID rebuild times, improves performance, and
simplifies setup (eliminates Power of 2 requirements, automatically handles spares), and provides more granular expansion of disk pools.

Product features

Feature

Description

Common set of valuable features (All MSA 2060 models)

Feature	Description
Chassis	12 drive bay LFF or 24 drive bay SFF 2U base arrays, depending on model 12 drive bay LFF or 24 drive bay SFF 2U expansion enclosures, depending on model 12Gb SAS disk expansion protocol New next-generation drive carriers New optional locking bezel
Storage controllers	Dual hot-swappable active/active controllers 4 host ports per controller, 8 host ports per array 16Gb Fibre Channel, 10Gb iSCSI and 12Gb SAS protocol support Auto negotiation New next-generation RAID offload ASIC and Processor 24GB system cache 12Gb SAS expansion ports Battery-free cache backup with super capacitors and compact flash
Expansion capacity	Maximum expansion of 9 drive enclosures (either LFF and/or SFF) Maximum of 240 SFF or 120 LFF drives Maximum of 921.6TB SFF / 1.92PB LFF raw capacity
Storage services	Virtual Storage Up to two pools (1PB each) Automated tiering v2.0 SSD read cache extension Thin provisioning Volume copy Snapshot capability (64 snaps standard, 512 optional snapshot per array) Virtual Storage Disk Groups can be spanned across multiple enclosures. Virtual Storage RAID levels supported: 1, 5, 6, 10, MSA-DP+ New disk group type (MSA-DP+): Integrated sparing, Fast rebuilds, Improved sequential performance, Incremental disk group expansion.
Management	New redundant web based interface (SMU v4) HPE MSA Health check New RESTful interface CLI Firmware Update Server – automatically receive notification of new firmware availability Non-disruptive on-line controller code upgrade. Requires Multi-pathing software. Arxscan Arxview remote monitoring via HPE Complete
Data protection	Self-encrypting SSDs and HDDs Drives FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certified Remote Snapshot (Array-based asynchronous replication) VMware Site Recovery Manager Zerto Virtual Replication via HPE Complete Optional locking bezel

Storage controllers¹

The MSA 2060 FC controllers support 16Gb FC host connectivity
The MSA 2060 iSCSI controllers support 10GbE iSCSI host connectivity.
The MSA 2060 SAS controllers support 12Gb SAS host connectivity.
No converged SAN controllers with MSA 2060 models.
Dual controller active/active (dual pool) design. System can be configured as active/passive (single pool).
Controllers contain next generation RAID offload ASIC and CPU.
24 GB System cache
12Gb SAS expansion ports.

Modular chassis

New chassis design with the MSA array and drive enclosures.
2U rack height 12 LFF or 24 SFF drive bays, depending on model.
12G SAS Midplane.
Next generation drive modules.
New locking bezel kit for added security.

Available drives

The MSA 2060 Storage systems support a wide variety of MSA 3.5 in LFF drives, and MSA 2.5 in SFF drives.

Solid-State Drives (SSDs) deliver the highest levels of performance and reliability.
Enterprise-class SAS hard disk drives (10K/15K RPM) offer a balance of performance, capacity, and cost while delivering enterprise grade reliability.
Midline SAS hard disk drives (7.2K RPM) are optimized to provide the best ratio of capacity to cost.

Optional drive enclosures

MSA 2060 LFF Drive Enclosure

This 2U enclosure is designed to support twelve HPE Storage LFF drives and accepts MSA dual-ported 12Gb SSD, Enterprise SAS,or SAS Midline hard drives. The pre-configured MSA 2060 LFF Drive Enclosure has two I/O modules and supports the MSA 2060 Storage systems.

The MSA 2060 LFF Drive Enclosure can be attached to the MSA 2060 LFF or SFF Storage systems.
Each MSA 2060 LFF Drive Enclosure ships standard with two.5m mini-SAS HD to mini-SAS HD cables for connection to the MSA 2060 array expansion port or existing drive enclosure cascade port.
LFF and/or SFF drive enclosures can be mixed up to the maximum of nine drive enclosures.

HPE MSA 2060 SFF Drive Enclosure

This 2U enclosure is designed to support twenty four HPE Storage SFF drive and accepts MSA dual ported 12Gb SSD, Enterprise SAS, or SAS Midline hard drives. The pre-configured MSA 2060 SFF Drive Enclosure has two I/O modules and supports the MSA 2060 Storage systems.

The MSA 2060 SFF Drive Enclosure can be attached to the MSA 2060 LFF or SFF Storage systems.
Each MSA 2060 SFF Drive Enclosure ships standard with a two .5m mini-SAS HD to mini-SAS HD cables for connection to the MSA 2060 array expansion port or existing drive enclosure cascade port.
LFF and/or SFF drive enclosures can be mixed up to the maximum of nine drive enclosures.

Scalability

LFF configurations can scale up to 192TB SAS Midline per array enclosure, expandable to 1.92PB SAS with the addition of a maximum of nine MSA 2060 LFF Drive Enclosures.
SFF configurations can scale up to 92.1TB per array enclosure, expandable to 921.6TB with the addition of a maximum of nine MSA 2060 SFF Drive Enclosures.

Disk group

It is a collection of disks in a given redundancy mode (RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, MSA-DP+). Disk Group RAID level and size can be created based on performance and/or capacity requirements. Multiple Disk Groups can be allocated into a Storage Pool for use with the Virtual Storage features.

LUNs

The MSA 2060 arrays support 512 volumes and up to 512 snapshots in a system. All of these volumes can be mapped to LUNs. Maximum LUN sizes up to 140TB. Thin provisioning allows the user to create the LUNs independent of the physical storage.

Storage pools

Storage Pools are comprised of one or more Disk Groups. A volumes data on a given LUN can now span all disk drives in a pool. When capacity is added to a system, users will benefit from the performance of all spindles in that pool.

The MSA 2060 supports large, flexible Volumes with sizes up to 128TiB and facilitates seamless capacity expansion. As pools are expanded data automatically reflows to balance capacity utilization on all drives.

RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, MSA-DP+

MSA-DP+ offers improved performance, availability, and very fast rebuild times compared to traditional parity RAID by utilizing erasure coding technology. MSA-DP+ includes distributed spare capacity (default is equal to 2x the largest drive), and does not use traditional spare drives
RAID 6 allocates two sets of parity data across drives and allows simultaneous write operations. It can withstand two simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss.
RAID 10 is mirroring and striping without parity and allows large Disk Groups to be created with high performance and mirroring for fault tolerance.
RAID 5 combines the block striping and parity. Because data and parity are striped across all of the disks, no single disk is a bottleneck.
Striping also allows users to reconstruct data in case of a disk failure. RAID 0 (Striping) is supported for Read Cache only.

Configuration and management tools

Management access, out-of-band, Storage Management Utility (SMU) V4, CLI.
Interface Types: USB 100/1000 Ethernet.
Protocols Supported SNMP, SMI-S, SSH, SMTP, FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet

Web browser support

The MSA 2060 arrays come integrated with a new web browser (SMU v4) and CLI based software for storage and RAID management, setup, configuration, and troubleshooting.

Microsoft internet explorer
Mozilla firefox
Google chrome

Hot plug expansion and replacement support

All MSA 2060 models support hot plug expansion and replacement of redundant controllers, drives, fans, power supplies, and I/O modules for simple, fast installation and maintenance.
Hot add expansion of drive enclosures is also supported.

HPE Server compatibility

The MSA 2060 supports most HPE ProLiant, BladeSystems and Integrity servers including

HPE ProLiant DL, ML Servers
HPE c-Class Blade Servers
Integrity servers, IA64

3rd Party server support

The MSA 2060 supports most multi-vendor industry standard Intel and AMD based (x86) servers. Hewlett Packard Enterprise requires the Third-Party Server to be logged and listed on the Microsoft Windows Server Catalog.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends that the Third-Party Server Vendor is an active member of TSANet.
Non-HPE servers will generally be supported if the HPE storage stack is used. This includes supported HPE branded HBAs and drivers, and supported FC switches.

Advanced data services suite

The HPE MSA Advanced Data Services Suite can be purchased as an option on the MSA 2060 Storage systems.

The optional Advanced Data Services Suite includes the following functionality:

Performance tiering
512 Snapshots and volume copy
Remote snap functionality

Performance tiering and archive tiering

Disk tiers are comprised of aggregating 1 or more Disk Groups of similar physical disks. The MSA 2060 supports 3 distinct tiers:

A performance tier with SSDs
A standard SAS tier with Enterprise SAS HDDs
An archive tier utilizing Midline SAS HDDs

Snapshot and volume copy

All MSA 2060 arrays come standard with 64 snaps.
A 512 Snapshot license is available as an option on the MSA 2060.
Snapshots create up to 512 point-in-time copies of data.
Volume Copies create up to 128 point-in-time copies of data.
Volume copies become standard volumes when they are complete.
Recovery is instant - revert data from any previous Snapshot or Volume Copy.
Backup snapped data to disk, virtual tape, or physical tape without a backup window.
If telephone support and software updates are desired for bundled software functionalities like 64 snapshots and volume copy software, a combination HW + SW support care pack must be purchased.

Remote snap

HPE MSA Remote Snap Software is array based functionality that provides remote replication on the HPE MSA 2060 array products. MSA Remote Snap is a form of asynchronous replication which consists of replication of block-level data from a volume on a local system to a volume on a second independent system. This second system may be co-located with the first system or may be located at a remote site.

HPE OneView for VMware vCenter

HPE OneView for VMware vCenter is a component within the HPE OneView plug-in for vCenter. It enables vSphere administrators to quickly obtain context-aware information and manage supported HPE storage devices like the MSA in their VMware vSphere environment directly from within vCenter.

Click here to access HPE OneView for VMware vCenter .

HPE OneView for system center

HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center provides a comprehensive integration of HPE Storage, HPE Servers, HPE Blade System and HPE Virtual Connect with Microsoft System Center.

When deployed with the MSA 2060 array, HPE OneView for System Center provides the following:

Monitors the health, events and alerts for the MSA 2060 – virtual pools, and volumes.
Provides topology information for VMs provisioned on the MSA Storage array.

vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)

The vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) is one of the storage application programming interface (API) sets in vSphere. VAAI is an API storage partners can leverage to enhance performance of virtual machine (VM) management operations by delegating these operations to the storage array.

LDAP support

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an IP network. LDAP provides the ability to authenticate MSA users with a central directory.

I/O Workload functionality

A beneficial user interface element called I/O Workload is included in the MSA web browser (SMU v4).

HPE Complete – Zerto

HPE MSA Storage users can leverage Zerto Virtual Replication to replicate applications and data from one MSA array to another MSA array.

For more information on the HPE Complete – Zerto solution, Click here .

HPE Complete – Arxscan

Arxscan is an HPE Complete Partner delivering innovative software that drives value through unique enterprise data center monitoring and reporting.

Click here for more information .

MSA Health check tool

MSA Health Check is a cloud-based tool that provides users insight into the general health of their MSA array. The tool is free of charge to HPE MSA users. The MSA Health Check tool is supported across all current MSA 1060/2060/2062 arrays as well as the prior three generations of arrays (MSA P2000 G3, MSA 1040/2040/2042 and MSA 1050/2050/2052).

Performance

The performance figures provided here are for reference as many variables exist between array configurations, workloads, drive types, disk group setup parameters and host system setup.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has traditionally published a set of end-to -end MSA performance specifications that are fed into HPE Sizer tools which are based on conservative real-world configurations.
For consistency, the MSA performance numbers have been documented in both Benchmark and end-to -end Performance tables.