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HP MSA 2040 Storage
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Random Writes
IOPS
32,000
MSA 2040 RAID 5 Performance Results
3
IO Meter Sequential Reads
MB/s
4
6,310
IO Meter Sequential Writes
MB/s
4
4,800
Benchmark Setup Configurations
1). Dual Controller configuration, RAID: 10, block size: 8k, queue depth: 128 per LUN, (192) HDDs, 96 15k
HDD + 96 10k HDD, 12 HDDs per vdisk, Win 2008 host: DL380pG8, (4) 16Gb FC direct connect to array
2). Dual Controller configuration, RAID: 1, block size: 8k, queue depth: 64 per LUN, (4) Enterprise
Mainstream SSDs, 2 SSDs per vdisk, Win 2008 host: DL380pG8, (2) 16Gb FC direct connect to array
3). Dual Controller configuration, RAID: 5, block size: 256k, queue depth: 16 per LUN, (72) 10k 300GB HDD,
12 HDDs per vdisk, Win 2008 host: DL380pG8, (4) 16Gb FC direct connect to array
4). Sequential numbers are obtained using a single volume per vdisk and single sequential workload
generated through the IO Meter performance software
End-to-End Performance Figures:
Guarantee Performance numbers are a guideline as established by tests using RAW I/O in an Operating
System Agnostic test lab environment.
MSA 2040
Array
Performance
HP MSA
2040
Converged
SAN
Controller
With HDD
5
HP MSA
2040
Converged
SAN
Controller
With SSD
6
HP MSA
2040
Converged
SAN
Controller
With HDD
5
HP MSA
2040
Converged
SAN
Controller
With SSD
6
HP MSA
2040
Converged
SAN
Controller
With HDD
5
HP MSA
2040
Converged
SAN
Controller
With SSD
6
HP MSA
2040
Converged
SAS
Controller
With HDD
5
HP MSA
2040
Converged
SAS
Controller
With SSD
6
Protocol
(host
connect)
8
16 Gb
Fibre
Channel
16 Gb
Fibre
Channel
10GbE
iSCSI
10GbE
iSCSI
1GbE
iSCSI
1GbE
iSCSI
12Gb8
SAS
12Gb8
SAS
MSA 2040 RAID 10 Performance Results **NOTE: RAID 1 was used for SSD testing
Random
Reads
IOPS
49,000
75,000
48,800
82,000
45,800
76,300
48,500
86,400
Random
Writes
IOPS
27,200
29,500
27,400
31,500
27,900
31,300
28,600
32,200
Random Mix
60/40
IOPS
36,000
44,100
36,000
47,600
37,300
46,800
38,900
48,300
Sequential
Reads
4,680
2,990
860
4,720