Includes

• (1) SFF Array Chassis
• (2) MSA 2050 SAN controllers
• (2) DC power supplies
• (2) 2m cables with Ring Lugs (IEC C14)
• (1) rack-mount kit.
• SFPs not included.

2U rack height. 12 LFF. All MSA 2050 SAN Storage Systems come standard with 2 SAN controllers.

NOTE: The MSA 2050 does not support single controller configurations. Single-controller support is provided only when a controller fails over to its partner controller.

SAN controller
MSA 2050 SAN controller supports 8Gb FC, 16Gb FC, 1GbE iSCSI or 10GbE iSCSI host connectivity.

NOTE:
• All drives within the MSA 2050 array must be self-encrypted drives (SEDs) to enable the encryption feature.
• There cannot be a mixture of encrypted and non-encrypted drives within the same array.

The flash-ready HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage system is designed for affordable application acceleration that is ideal for small and remote office deployments. But do not let the low cost fool you. The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage system gives you the combination of simplicity, flexibility to grow now and into the future, and advanced features you may not expect to find in an entry-priced array. Start small and scale as needed with any combination of solid state disks (SSD), high-performance enterprise, or lower-cost midline SAS based drives.

HPE MSA Storage has been the industry-leading entry storage Fibre Channel platform for the past eight years, with nearly 500,000 storage systems sold worldwide. Now the HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage system delivers 2x higher performance [1] than the previous generation at the same price, delivering in excess of 200,000 IOPS starting at under $10,000 USD for affordable application acceleration. It’s seriously simple and affordable flash-ready storage to help you get the most performance for the lowest cost.

RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
The MSA 2050 features several important additional RAID levels. RAID 6 offers the highest level of RAID protection. It allocates two sets of parity data across drives and allows simultaneous write operations. It can withstand two simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss. RAID 10 is mirroring and striping without parity and allows large Disk Groups to be created with high performance and mirroring for fault tolerance. RAID 5 combines the block striping and parity. Because data and parity are striped across all of the disks, no single disk is a bottleneck. Striping also allows users to reconstruct data in case of a disk failure. RAID 0 (Striping) is supported for Read Cache only.