HPE MSA 2062 Storage

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MSA 2062 Solution

MSA 2060-branded LFF or SFF array chassis depending on model.

Two AC power supplies.

Two MSA 2060 Storage Controllers (FC, iSCSI or SAS).

Two 1.92TB Read Intensive SSDs.

One Advanced Data Services LTU.

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 (512 snapshots per array, standard).

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.

Non-disruptive on-line controller code upgrade. Requires Multi-pathing software.

Arxscan Arxview remote monitoring via HPE Complete.

Data protection

Remote Snapshot (Array-based asynchronous replication, standard).

VMware Site Recovery Manager.

Zerto Virtual Replication via HPE Complete.

Optional locking bezel.

Storage controllers

The MSA 2062 FC controllers support 16Gb FC host connectivity.

The MSA 2062 iSCSI controllers support 10GbE iSCSI host connectivity.

The MSA 2062 SAS controllers support 12Gb SAS host connectivity.

No converged SAN controllers with MSA 2062 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.

24GB 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.

Available drives

The MSA 2062 Storage Systems support a wide variety of the MSA 3.5-inch LFF drives, and the MSA 2.5-inch 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.

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 and 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 2062 LFF or SFF Storage systems.
- The MSA 2060 LFF Drive Enclosure can be attached to the MSA 2062 LFF or SFF Storage systems.
- LFF and/or SFF drive enclosures can be mixed up to the maximum of nine drive enclosures.

HPE MSA 2060SFF drive enclosure

This 2U enclosure is designed to support twenty zawafour HPE Storage SFF drivesand 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 2062Storage systems.

The MSA 2060 SFF Drive Enclosure can be attached to the MSA 2062 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 2062 array expansion port or existing drive enclosure cascade port.

LFF and/or SFF Drive Enclosures canbe mixed up to the maximum of ninedrive 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 9 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 nineMSA 2060SFF Drive Enclosures.

Disk group

A Disk Group 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 2062 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 volume’s 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 2062 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+

The MSA 2062 features several important additional RAID levels. 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.

MSA-DP+

MSA-DP+ is a new RAID-based data protection level introduced with the 6th Generation MSA Storage Systems that: