Installation guide

Technical white paper | HP MSA 1040/2040

About this document

This white paper highlights the best practices for optimizing the HP MSA 1040/2040, and should be used in conjunction with

other HP Modular Smart Array (MSA) manuals. MSA technical user documentations can be found at hp.com/go/msa1040

and hp.com/go/msa2040.

Intended audience

This white paper is intended for HP MSA 1040/2040 administrators with previous storage area network (SAN) knowledge. It

offers MSA practices that can contribute to an MSA best customer experience.

This paper is also designed to convey best practices in the deployment of the HP MSA 1040/2040 array.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for using this product include knowledge of:

• Networking

• Storage system configuration

• SAN management

• Connectivity methods such as direct attach storage (DAS), Fibre Channel, and serial attached SCSI (SAS)

• Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and Ethernet protocols