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HP StorageWorks 2000sa Modular Smart Array
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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HP StorageWorks 2000sa Modular Smart Array
Models
HP StorageWorks
MSA2000sa Modular
Smart Array
HP StorageWorks 2012sa Single Controller Modular Smart Array |
AJ752A |
HP StorageWorks 2012sa Dual Controller Modular Smart Array |
AJ753A |
HP StorageWorks 2000sa Modular Smart Array Controller |
AJ754A |
HP StorageWorks MSA2000 Single I/O 3.5 in 12 Drive Enclosure (w/ two .6m SAS |
AJ749A |
cables) |
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HP StorageWorks MSA2000 Dual I/O 3.5 inch 12 Drive Enclosure (w/ two .6m SAS |
AJ750A |
cables) |
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HP StorageWorks MSA2000 Drive Enclosure I/O Module |
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Key Features
Highly efficient |
Geared to departmental and small to medium business requirements |
consolidation and sharing |
Grows as the storage demands increase - up to 48 drives and 14.4TB SAS or 48TB SATA |
of storage |
Supports up to 4 hosts with SAS direct connect along with support for 256 LUNs and LUN sizes up |
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Optional controller-based snapshot and clone capability for increased data protection |
Flexibility in drives |
Enterprise-class SAS or archival-class SATA drives as the need and budget dictate |
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Dual-ported SAS drives for enterprise needs |
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Large capacity SATA drives for inexpensive archival storage |
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Able to mix SAS and SATA drives within the same drive enclosure |
Cost efficient plus high- |
Choose either single (future upgradeable) or dual controller array models |
availability choices |
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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HP StorageWorks 2000sa Modular Smart Array
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 32bit 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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HP StorageWorks 2000sa Modular Smart Array
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MSA2000sa |
MSA2000fc |
MSA2000i |
EVA4400 |
Capacity (raw) |
3.6TB SAS or 12TB SATA |
3.6TB SAS or 12TB SATA |
3.6TB SAS or 12TB SATA |
3.6TB FC or 12TB FATA |
Minimum / with maximum |
w/ 3 enclosures: |
w/ 3 enclosures: |
w/ 3 enclosures: |
w/ 8 enclosures |
additional drive |
14.4TB SAS or 48TB |
14.4TB SAS or 48TB |
14.4TB SAS or 48TB |
43TB FC or 96 TB FATA |
enclosures |
SATA |
SATA |
SATA |
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Controller Cache |
1GB per controller |
1 GB per controller |
1 GB per controller |
2 GB per controller |
Host connect |
Two 3Gb |
Two 4Gb |
Two 1GbE |
Two 4Gb |
MSA2000 has 1 or 2 |
SAS ports |
Fibre Channel ports |
iSCSI ports |
Fibre Channel ports |
controllers, EVA has 2 |
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per controller |
per controller |
per controller |
controllers standard |
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Maximum Drives |
48 |
48 |
48 |
96 |
Maximum host supported |
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64 |
16 |
512 |
Snapshot, remote |
Snapshot, clone |
Snapshot, clone |
Snapshot, clone |
Snapshot, clone, |
replication |
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remote data replication |
Use for Storage |
Primary Storage with SAS |
Primary Storage with SAS |
Primary Storage with SAS |
Primary Storage with |
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Secondary with SATA |
Secondary with SATA |
Secondary with SATA |
Fibre Channel Secondary |
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with FATA |
*maximum available storage capacity depends on the RAID level being implemented, and is based on maximum number of LUNs and LUN size
Product Technology |
SAS |
Two 3Gb host ports per controller |
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Modular Chassis |
2U, 12 Large Form Factor drive bays, accommodating MSA2 SAS and SATA |
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hard drives (MSA2000-specific). Comes standard with one or two controllers. |
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Drives available |
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise-class drives designed for high volume, |
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24x7 usage. Serial-ATA (SATA) are usually reserved for archival of data as |
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they are both relatively inexpensive and are available in very large capacities. |
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The MSA2000 family of arrays can accommodate both SAS and SATA drives |
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within the same enclosure making it ideal to have both business-critical, high |
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activity files on SAS drives while using snapshot or clone capability to keep |
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back-up data on the less expensive drives. SAS drive performance can be |
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approximately 30%greater than SATA performance on sequential host IO. |
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SAS performance excels in sequential lower latency response time and |
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random IO per second transaction performance due to higher rpm disk |
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speeds yielding lower seek times. |
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NOTE: MSA2 3.5 inch Large Form Factor (LFF) drives are for use only in the |
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MSA2000 family. |
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Scalability |
Up to 3.6TB SAS or 12TB SATA, expandable to 14.4TB SAS or 48TB SATA |
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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 |
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16TB. The arrays support LUN expansion and deletion of any LUN. |
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RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, In addition to the usual RAID levels, the MSA2000 family features several |
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important additional levels. RAID 6 is the highest level of RAID protection. It |
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allocates two sets of parity data across drives and allows simultaneous write |
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operations. It can withstand two simultaneous drive failures without downtime |
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or data loss. RAID 10 is mirroring and striping without parity. It is the most |
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popular of the multiple RAID levels, allowing large arrays with high |
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performance in most cases and superior fault tolerance. RAID 50 combines |
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Family Information
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the block striping and parity of RAID 5 with the straight block striping of RAID |
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0, yielding higher performance than RAID 5 through the addition of RAID 0, |
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particularly during writes. |
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Configuration and |
HP StorageWorks MSA Storage Management Utility (SMU), Management |
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Management Tools |
access, out-of-band: WEB GUI, CLI. Interface Types: Mini DB9 RS232, |
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10/100 Ethernet Protocols Supported SNMP, SSL, SSH, SMTP, HTTP, Telnet |
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Hot Plug Expansion and |
The MSA2000sa supports hot plug expansion and replacement of redundant |
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Replacement Support |
controllers, fans, power supplies, and I/O modules for simple, fast |
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installation and maintenance. |
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Snapshot and Clone |
Optional controller based functionality. Offers higher levels of data |
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protection, enabling an almost instant recovery from data failure or |
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corruption. Offers alternative development testing of 'offline' production data |
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and the ability to backup snapped/cloned data |
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Overview |
The MSA2000sa comes integrated with web browser based software for storage and RAID management, |
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setup, configuration and troubleshooting. This reduces the cost of ownership by reducing the training |
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and technical expertise necessary to install and maintain your HP storage solution. |
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Server Compatibility |
Supports most HP ProLiant servers including |
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HP ProLiant DL, ML |
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Industry Standard X86 |
Supports most multi-vendor industry standard 32-bit Intel and AMD based (x86) servers. HP |
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servers support |
requires the Third-Party Server to be logo'd and listed on the Microsoft Windows Server Catalog. |
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Refer to the Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/catalog/server/ |
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HP StorageWorks Division recommends that the Third-Party Server Vendor is an active member of |
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TSANet. Refer to the TSANet website for details: www.tsanet.com |
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OS Support |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 |
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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 (32/64) |
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Red Hat Linux 5 (32/64) |
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SuSE 10 (32/64) |
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VMware ESX 3.5 (32/64) |
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Supported Clustering |
Microsoft Cluster Service for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2003 |
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Solutions |
SteelEye's LifeKeeper for Linux on , Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 5 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server |
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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. |
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Only Microsoft Internet Explorer V6.X and above, and Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 or later are supported |
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Optional Software
MSA2000 Snapshot and Product Features
Volume Copy Software |
Data Protection |
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Snapshots create up to 64 point-in-time pictures of data
Volume Copies create up to 128 point-in-time copies of data
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
Data Testing
Snap or clone data to test the performance of a software application on 'offline' production data Snap or clone data to test how a software patch or enhancement will function on 'offline; production data
HP StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array Snapshot 64 Software LTU |
T5512A |
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HP StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array Snapshot 8 Software LTU |
T5513A |
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HP StorageWorks 2000 |
Modular Smart Array Snapshot 8 to 64 Upgrade Software |
T5515A |
LTU |
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HP StorageWorks 2000 |
Modular Smart Array Volume Copy Software LTU |
T5514A |
Path Failover (MPIO) MPIO Failover for Windows provides a single multi-path solution for HP StorageWorks MSA2000sa Modular Smart Array on HP ProLiant servers by providing basic path failover. Supports Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2003 R2, and Windows 2003 X64 operating systems.
Failover support for Linux is with Device Mapper 4.0.
NOTE: For more information visit
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/sanworks/multipathoptions/index.html
HP StorageWorks Storage HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Software provides host-based, continuous replication for customers Mirroring seeking a low-cost alternative to fabric or array-based replication. Patented replication and failover
technology continuously captures byte-level data changes as they happen and replicates those changes to one or more target servers at any location without geographic limitations. By replicating only the bytes that change, Storage Mirroring Software uses the absolute minimum bandwidth on your existing LAN or WAN to replicate your data. Storage Mirroring also provides server failover where a production server can automatically be 'replaced' by the storage mirroring server in the event of failure. Couple Storage Mirroring with MSA2000 Snapshots and/or Volume Copy to achieve an Enterprise class data protection strategy creating different data recovery points using continuous data protection with Storage Mirroring and point-in-time data protection with Snapshots and/or Volume Copy.
Storage Mirroring Software supports:
Any DAS, NAS, and SAN storage device.
Any Windows ProLiant server including all ML, DL, and BL platforms
Many Windows platforms including Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows
Server 2003 R2, Windows Storage Server 2003, Windows Storage Server 2003 R2, 64-bit
Windows, and Windows on Itanium
For more information visit: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/sm/index.html
StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Media Kit v5 |
T5437A |
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