User Manual

QuickSpecs
HPE MSA 1040 Storage
Features
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All MSA 1040 models offer a common set of valuable features:
• Ease of management featuring browser-based out-of-band access. This allows a department or small company to
effectively handle
growing storage requirements, with the aid of an intuitive GUI to administer the unit with a minimum of
complexity. Ideal for local or remote installations.
• Storage Management Utility V3 (SMU). This new MSA management GUI brings a new modern look and feel to array
management. SMU V3 is available with GL200 firmware or newer. Existing MSA customers can choose to use the new
SMU (V3) or to continue to use the previous generation SMU (V2) if new virtualization features are not required.
• Thin Provisioning allo
ws storage allocation of physical storage resources only when they are consumed by an application.
Thin Provisioning also allows over-provisioning of physical storage pool resources allowing ease of growth for volumes
without predicting storage capacity upfront. Thin Provisioning is available with GL200 firmware or newer.
• MSA 1040 comes standard with 64 controller-based snapshots and clone capability (volume copy is only available on
linear storage with pre-GL220 firmware; volume copy for both linear and virtual storage is available with GL220 firmware
or newer). There is also an optional license for 512 snapshots.
• Dual controller array models with automated failover for high availability.
• All models support a wide variety of drives: High-performance enterprise-class SAS, and high-capacity SAS Midline drives.
• The MSA 1040 will support a maximum of 3 disk enclosures (either LFF and/or SFF); Add-on enclosures can either be
D2700 Small Form Factor (SFF) Drive Enclosures or MSA 2040 Large Form Factor (LFF) Disk Enclosures. The array can
grow incrementally from a few drives to 48 LFF or 99 SFF drives.
• Disk Groups support RAID levels 1, 5, 6, 10. Linear Vdisks support RAID levels 0,1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50.
• Maximum hard drive counts vary by RAID levels: 2 drive max for RAID level 1; max of 16 drives for RAID levels 0, 3, 5, 6,
and 10; max of 32 drives for RAID level 50. With GL200 or newer firmware and the purchases virtualization license
multiple Disk Groups can be aggregated into a Storage Pool.
• The maximum LUN size is 140TB (128TiB)
• Storage Pools allow data on a given LUN to span across all drives in a pool.
When capacity is added to a system, the user
is also getting a performance benefit of the additional spindles – hence the term Wide Striping. Storage Pools are a
vailable
with GL200 firmware or newer and the advanced Virtualization license needs to be purchased separately.
• Snapshot enhancements for virtual storage, including performance improvements, hierarchical snapshots, and simplified
resource management. These enhancements are offered with GL200 or newer firmware and with the purchase of
advanced Virtualization license.
• Snapshot enhancements for virtual storage, including performance improvements, hierarchical snapshots, and simplified
resource management. Administrators can monitor and optionally control snapshot space usage with GL220 firmware or
later.
• Scheduler to schedule virtual storage snapshots for replication with GL220 firmware or later.
• SSD support is available with GL220 firmware or newer. With SSD support customers can enable advanced virtualization
features such as read cache and automated tiering (requires Advanced Virtualization Upgrade License)
. SSD performance
tier requires additional Performance Auto Tiering License.
• Virtual tier affinity allows customers to prioritize data by assigning appropriate affinity level (Performance, No Affinity &
Archive) with GL220 firmware or later.
Non-disruptive on-line controller code upgrade (requires dual controllers w/ multi-pathing software) Upgradable by design.
Owners of a P2000 G3 array are able to do data-in-place upgrades to the new MSA 1040 array.
This unique ability protects the earlier investments in drives, and JBODs. NOTE: Certain limitations are applicable- please review
MSA 1040-2040 Upgrade Technical Whitepaper before upgrading your P2000 G3
systems http://www.hpe.com/h20195/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA4-6830ENW