Product Description
- Looking for affordable, high-performance shared storage? The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage is a flash ready system designed for affordable application acceleration ideal for small and remote office deployments. Don’t let the low cost fool you, it gives you the combination of simplicity, flexibility to grow now, 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, or lower-cost midline SAS-based hard disk drives (HDDs). HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage has been the industry-leading entry storage Fibre Channel (FC) platform for the past eight years, with nearly 500,000 systems sold worldwide [1]. Delivers 2x higher performance [2] than the previous generation at the same price, delivering in excess of 200,000 IOPS. It’s seriously simple and affordable flash-ready storage to help you get the most performance for the lowest cost.
Features
- The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage supports data-in-place upgrades protecting drive investments and reduces data migrations.
- Start small and scale as needed with any combination of SSDs, enterprise or midline SAS HDDs.
- Encrypted SSDs and HDDs for a data secure hybrid flash array.
- Remote replication with Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI supports an affordable disaster recovery solution.
- The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage delivers updated virtualized snapshot technology making data protection and instant recovery a snap.
- Automated tiering dynamically responds to workload changes, so you don’t have to.
- The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage is easy to install, easy to use, easy to maintain, no previous storage expertise required.
- The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage performs at 200,000 IOPS delivering affordable application acceleration for small to medium-sized businesses both local and remote.
- Flexible base model delivers 2X more performance than the previous generation HPE MSA 2040 SAN Storage for the same price.
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Specifications
Spec | Description |
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QuickSpecs (HTML) | https://www.hpe.com/h20195/v2/gethtml.aspx?docname=a00008276enw |
QuickSpecs (PDF) | https://www.hpe.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=a00008276enw |
Quickspec Date | 15 |
QuickSpecs Date | 05/06/2019 12:00:00 AM; 10/31/2028 12:00:00 AM |
UNSPSC code | 43201802 |
Capacity | 960 TB LFF maximum raw capacity |
Form factor | 2U |
Compatible operating systems | Microsoft Windows Server 2019, Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, VMware, Detailed information available at: http://www.hpe.co... |
Host interface | One 16 Gb/8 Gb Fibre Channel 4-ports per controller or one 1GbE/10GbE iSCSI 4-ports per controller is included |
Clustering support | Windows, Linux, HP-UX |
Storage expansion options | HPE MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosure or HPE MSA 2050 SFF Disk Enclosure |
SAN backup support | Yes |
Systems Insight Manager support | Yes |
Drive description | 12 LFF SAS/MDL SAS/SSD supported |
Weight | 18.4 kg; 40.6 lb |
Product dimensions (H x W x D) | 3.5 x 22.5 x 17.6 in |
Minimum dimensions ( H x W x D) | 8.9 x 57.2 x 44.7 cm |
Storage controller | Two HPE MSA 2050 SAN controllers included |
Drive type | 96 LFF SAS/MDL SAS/SSD maximum including expansion, supported |
Facet Product type (faceturl) | msa-storage |
Facet Capacity (faceturl) | 1152000 |
Facet Form factor (faceturl) | 2u |
Facet Features (faceturl) | externally-managed |
Facet Capacity (facet) | 1152000 |
Facet Form factor (facet) | 2U |
Facet Product type (facet) | MSA Storage |
Facet Features (facet) | Externally managed |