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The HP StorageWorks 2000sa Modular Smart Array (MSA2000sa) represents the end-to-end Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) model of the MSA2000 family (which includes the MSA2000fc Fibre Channel and MSA2000i iSCSI models), a new generation of HP storage arrays specifically designed for entry-level customers featuring the very latest in functionality and technology at highly affordable price points.
The MSA2000sa is a 2U direct attach, external shared storage solution designed for small to medium size deployments or remote locations. It comes in two models - a basic single controller model for low initial cost with the ability to upgrade later; and a model with dual controllers standard for maximum performance. This solution offers a SAS host interface to accommodate twelve 3.5 inch enterprise class SAS drives and archival-class SATA drives. Additional capacity can easily be added when needed by attaching up to three MSA2000 12 bay drive enclosures. Maximum raw capacity ranges from 3.6TB SAS or 12TB SATA in the base cabinet, to over 14.4TB SAS or 48TB SATA with the addition of the maximum number of drive enclosures. NOTE: there are no additional hidden charges, licenses or fees as you add enclosures or hosts and users.
The MSA2000 offers many distinct features such as the ability to mix SAS and SATA RAID sets (volumes) within the same enclosure greatly increases the flexibility and economy of assigning mission-critical data and archival data to the proper drive type. The wide variety of RAID levels supported assures the user of just the right level of performance and protection demanded by his application. The capability of implementing controller-based snapshots and clones affordably brings enterprise-class functionality into smaller departments, remote locations, and small but growing companies.
The MSA2000sa is a member of HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array offerings, delivering simple and affordable storage technology to meet today's demanding and growing IT needs. These storage solutions offer excellent price/performance and availability features for direct attach environments, small clusters, workgroups and entry-level SAN environments. Each solution is designed to be easy to deploy, secure, with low management costs, while driving rapid return on investment.
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Highly efficient consolidation and sharing of storage
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- Geared to departmental and small to medium business requirements
- Grows as the storage demands increase - up to 48 drives and 14.4TB SAS or 48TB SATA
- Supports up to 4 hosts with SAS direct connect along with support for 256 LUNs and LUN sizes up to 16TB
- Optional controller-based snapshot and clone capability for increased data protection
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Flexibility in drives (MSA2000 family-specific)
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- Enterprise-class SAS or archival-class SATA drives as the need and budget dictate
- Dual-ported SAS drives for enterprise needs
- Large capacity SATA drives for inexpensive archival storage
- Able to mix SAS and SATA drives within the same drive enclosure
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Cost efficient plus high-availability choices
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- Choose either single (future upgradeable) or dual controller array models
- Choice of low cost single I/O or high-availability dual I/O drive enclosure models.
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| Customer Benefits |
- The HP StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array family manages growing storage requirements across multiple HP ProLiant servers for customers who need a centralized dedicated storage solution for applications. Shared storage allows for controlled, cost-effective growth and increased protection of data.
- Its ease of management allows a department or small company to effectively handle growing storage requirements with a minimum of complexity.
- The MSA2000sa extends the benefits of shared storage resources to first time implementers on a tight budget
- The modular design allows the user to start relatively small but supports future growth to hundreds of users and up to 14.4TB of SAS or 48TB of SAS storage
- The optional controller-based snapshot and clone capability as part of the MSA2000 family allows the smaller departmental user or company to implement functionality once only available to much larger firms with expensive arrays.
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At a Glance
| HP MSA2000sa Models At a Glance: |
- High performance Modular Smart Array controller with two 3Gb SAS ports
- Single and dual controller models
- MSA2012sa models utilize Celeron 566MHz processor(s)
- 1 GB transportable cache per controller - battery-free cache backup with super capacitors and compact flash
- 256 LUNs with 16TB LUNs supported
- 2U rack mount chassis combining both the controller and disk shelf
- Twelve 3.5 inch dual-ported SAS or SATA MSA2000-specific drives (supports mixing of drive types in a single shelf)
- Support expansion to 3 additional enclosures & total of 48 disk drives
- Redundant power supplies and fans are standard
- RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50
- Non-disruptive on-line controller code upgrade
- Heterogeneous support for 32- bit and 64-bit Windows, Red Hat and SuSE
- Qualified and certified for Windows and Linux clustering
- Optional controller-based snapshot and clone functionality
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Product Technology
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SAS |
Two 3Gb host ports per controller |
| Modular Chassis |
2U, 12 Large Form Factor drive bays, accommodating MSA2 SAS and SATA hard drives (MSA2000-specific). Comes standard with one or two controllers. |
| Drives available |
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise-class drives designed for high volume, 24x7 usage. Serial-ATA (SATA) are usually reserved for archival of data as they are both relatively inexpensive and are available in very large capacities. The MSA2000 family of arrays can accommodate both SAS and SATA drives within the same enclosure making it ideal to have both business-critical, high activity files on SAS drives while using snapshot or clone capability to keep back-up data on the less expensive drives. SAS drive performance can be approximately 30%greater than SATA performance on sequential host IO. SAS performance excels in sequential lower latency response time and random IO per second transaction performance due to higher rpm disk speeds yielding lower seek times.
NOTE: MSA2 3.5 inch Large Form Factor (LFF) drives are for use only in the MSA2000 family. |
| Scalability |
Up to 3.6TB SAS or 12TB SATA, expandable to 14.4TB SAS or 48TB SATA with the addition of a maximum of three MSA2000 3.5 inch Disk Enclosures.
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| LUNs |
The MSA2000 family of arrays supports 256 LUNs and LUN sizes up to 16TB. The arrays support LUN expansion and deletion of any LUN. |
| RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50 |
In addition to the usual RAID levels, the MSA2000 family features several important additional levels. RAID 6 is the highest level of RAID protection. It 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. It is the most popular of the multiple RAID levels, allowing large arrays with high performance in most cases and superior fault tolerance. RAID 50 combines the block striping and parity of RAID 5 with the straight block striping of RAID 0, yielding higher performance than RAID 5 through the addition of RAID 0, particularly during writes. |
| Configuration and Management Tools |
HP StorageWorks MSA Storage Management Utility (SMU), Management access, out-of-band: WEB GUI, CLI. Interface Types: Mini DB9 RS232, 10/100 Ethernet Protocols Supported SNMP, SSL, SSH, SMTP, HTTP, Telnet
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| Hot Plug Expansion and Replacement Support |
The MSA2000sa supports hot plug expansion and replacement of redundant controllers, fans, power supplies, and I/O modules for simple, fast installation and maintenance. |
| Snapshot and Clone |
Optional controller based functionality. Offers higher levels of data protection, enabling an almost instant recovery from data failure or corruption. Offers alternative development testing of 'offline' production data and the ability to backup snapped/cloned data |
| Overview |
The MSA2000sa comes integrated with web browser based software for storage and RAID management, setup, configuration and troubleshooting. This reduces the cost of ownership by reducing the training and technical expertise necessary to install and maintain your HP storage solution. |
| Server Compatibility |
Supports most HP ProLiant servers including
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| Industry Standard X86 servers support |
- Supports most multi-vendor industry standard 32-bit Intel and AMD based (x86) servers. HP requires the Third-Party Server to be logo'd and listed on the Microsoft Windows Server Catalog.
- Refer to the Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/catalog/server/
- HP StorageWorks Division recommends that the Third-Party Server Vendor is an active member of TSANet. Refer to the TSANet website for details: www.tsanet.com
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| OS Support |
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 (32/64)
- Red Hat Linux 5 (32/64)
- SuSE 10 (32/64)
- VMware ESX 3.5 (32/64)
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| Supported Clustering Solutions |
- Microsoft Cluster Service for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2003
- SteelEye's LifeKeeper for Linux on , Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 5 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (supported with ProLiant servers only)
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| Web Browser support |
- MSA2000sa supports target based management, and requires a web browser for management. Only Microsoft Internet Explorer V6.X and above, and Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 or later are supported
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