MSA 2050 SAN Storage Series Features: 200,000+ IOPS for affordable application acceleration Flexible base model delivers 2x IOPS performance than the previous generation MSA for the same price. Advanced data services with no experience required Easy to install, easy to use, easy to maintain—no storage expertise necessary Automated tiering dynamically responds to workload changes, so you don’t have to Keep your business running with expanded data protection features Virtualized snapshot technology makes data protection and instant recovery a snap Remote replication with FC and iSCSI supports affordable disaster recovery Grow flexibly now and into the future Data-in-place upgrades protect drive investments and eliminate data migrations Start small and scale as needed with any combination of SSD, Enterprise or Midline SAS drives Specifications: Storage Models HPE MSA 2050 SAN Dual Controller LFF Storage HPE MSA 2050 SAN LFF TAA-compliant Storage HPE MSA 2050 SAN Dual Controller SFF Storage HPE MSA 2050 SAN SFF TAA-compliant Storage HPE MSA 2050 SAS Dual Controller LFF Storage HPE MSA 2050 SAS Dual Controller SFF Storage Array Access Type Block Form Factor 2U, SFF or LFF Number of controllers per array 2 Number of host ports per array 8 FC host connectivity 8/16Gb iSCSI host connectivity 1Gb or 10Gb SAS host connectivity 6Gb or 12Gb Cache, per array Max Read cache per array 8TB Data (read/write) cache + system memory per array 16GB Pool Capacity (with Large Pool Support) 562 TB (512 TiB) RAID Levels supported: Virtual mode RAID 0,1, 5, 6, 10 Enclosures Expansion Drive Enclosures 0-7 enclosures LFF/SFF array/enclosure mixing Supported Maximum number of drives per array enclosure 24 SFF/12 LFF Maximum number of drives per drive enclosure 24 SFF/12 LFF Drive enclosure interface type 6Gb SAS Drives Maximum total HDDs per array 192 SFF / 96 LFF Maximum total SSDs per array 192 SFF / 96 LFF Max raw capacity per array enclosure 76.8 TB SFF / 168TB LFF Max raw capacity per drive enclosure 76.8 TB SFF / 168TB LFF Max raw capacity per array 614.4TB SFF / 1344TB LFF Drive Capacities SFF SSDs 800GB, 960GB, 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 3.2TB LFF SSDs 800GB, 960GB, 1.92TB SFF HDDs 15K: 600GB, 900GB 10K: 600GB, 1.2TB, 1.8TB, 2.4TB LFF HDDs 7.2K: 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, 10TB, 12TB, 14TB SEDs SSDs: 800GB, 1.6TB SFF 10K HDD: 1.2TB LFF 7.2K HDD: 4TB Software Features Thin Technologies Thin Provisioning, Space Reclamation, Thin Rebuild Tiering Performance Tier, Standard Tier, Archive Tier Replication Snapshots (512), Volume Copy, Remote Snaps Quality of Service Virtual Tier Affinity Additional Features Maximum number of volumes 512 Maximum number of snapshots 512 Maximum number of hosts 512 Maximum number of initiators 1024 Customer self-installable Yes Customer self-repairable Yes Customer self-upgradeable Yes Health Check analytics Yes