Overview

What's new

• Continuing to enhance dual-port portfolio with higher capacity drives with the addition of the MSA2 450 GB SAS Dual-port HDD

Features & Benefits

• Highly efficient consolidation and storage sharing: The HP StorageWorks 2000fc Modular Smart Array delivers low cost, consolidated storage array technology to meet departmental and small to medium businesses requirements with 4 Gb Fibre Channel solutions matched with the newest SAS and SATA drives.
• Flexibility in drive types and sizes: The MSA2000fc arrays offer a choice of drives: high performance enterprise class SAS drives and low cost, high capacity archival class SATA. Each model comes standard with twelve drive bays able to simultaneously accommodate 3.5-inch dual-ported SAS drives and SATA drives.
• Cost Efficient: The MSA2000fc offers single and dual controller models. Choose a single controller model for lowest initial investment, or choose a dual controller model for greater data protection. Balance performance with cost by choosing lower cost SATA drives for archival areas.

• Grow as storage demands increase: The MSA2000fc array allows customers to grow their storage as demands increase up to 21.6 TB SAS or 48 TB SATA supporting up to 64 hosts for Fibre Channel attach. The MSA2000 array family can support up to 3 drive enclosures and 48 drives.
• Supports up to 64 hosts for Fibre Channel attach: Powerful new controller and 1GB cache provides support for up to 64 hosts. Latest 4Gb Fibre Channel technology means that the users will have fast and reliable access to their data.
• MSA2000fc supports up to 256 LUNs size up to 16 TB: With 256 LUNs, the MSA2000fc has more than sufficient LUNs for storage configuration flexibility.

• High availability for business continuity: Reduce risk of IT failure with active/active controllers, dual-ported drives, and redundant hardware components.
• Increased level of data protection: All models support the optional HP StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array Snapshot Software which offers controller-based snapshot and cloning functionality for increased data protection. This requires no host resources being used and they produce space-efficient, copy-on-write snapshots and clones.
• Easy to manage and service: Reduced time to operation with easy and secure deployment. Reduced risk from operator errors, resulting in less downtime and data loss, while increasing customer satisfaction. Supports customer replaceable hot plug components such as drives, controllers, fans and power supplies.

• Space-efficient design: The array unit itself only occupies 2U of rack space and includes 12-drive bays. There is no requirement for a special UPS that takes additional space to protect the cache because the protection comes standard within the unit. Each additional drive enclosure also only occupies 2U of rack space.