HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage
Disk Storage Systems

Overview:

Need a modern shared storage array which is flash-ready when you are and affordable with what’s left of a small budget? The HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage brings affordable flash storage down to the most price sensitive customers. Designed to meet entry-level storage requirements, the HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage is a good fit for budget constrained customers. With one of the lowest entry price point in the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Storage portfolio and field-proven HPE ProLiant compatibility, the HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage is the platform of choice for smaller IT workloads. The HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage features iSCSI, FC and SAS host interface connectivity at previously unattainable entry price points. This storage allows users to take advantage of the latest storage technologies while also providing a balance between performance and budget. This portfolio has been the industry-leading entry storage FC platform for the past eight years, with over 500,000 storage systems sold worldwide.

• Introducing new drive options including Read Intensive SSDs and new HDD Bundles.
• Four new Read Intensive SSDs for affordable flash storage, HPE MSA 960 GB and 1.92 TB SAS RI SFF and LFF SSDs.
• New HDD bundles consisting of six individual drives of either 7.2K MidLine drives, 10K or 15K SAS drives.
• New 14 TB LFF HDD and 6-pack bundle.

Features:

Affordable, Flash-ready Storage

The HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage base unit comes factory-configured with dual-controller arrays, four host ports delivering 8 Gb Fibre Channel, 1GbE iSCSI, 10GbE iSCSI or 12 Gb SAS.

Moving to a modern flash-ready array delivers performance enhancement and decreased latencies. Advanced data services and a small investment in flash can take your organization to the next level.

Simple, Proven HPE ProLiant Gen10 Server Compatible Shared Storage

The HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage continues its heritage of providing affordable, easy to use shared storage without a big learning curve with its intuitive setup and management for HPE ProLiant Server administrators.

Matching industrial design to fit right in with your HPE ProLiant Gen10 Servers.

Advanced Virtualization Services with a Simplified Licensing Approach

The HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage leverages flash with easy to use, easy to maintain tiering and read cache technologies.

No storage expertise necessary, this system dynamically responds to workload changes so you don't have to.

Expandable and Upgradable to Meet New Demands

With the HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage, you can add additional hard disk drives (HDDs) or disk expansions to your HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage or upgrade to the HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage through data-in-place upgrades, a simple 15 minute upgrade.

No migrations required making it a lot easier to install and manage.

Specifications:

HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage Specifications
Capacity	672 TB maximum including expansion, depending on model
Drive description	96 SFF or 48 LFF Maximum including expansion, depending on model
Host interface	8 Gb Fibre Channel, 4-ports per system or 1 Gb iSCSI, 4-ports per system or 10 Gb iSCSI, 4-ports per system or 12 Gb SAS, 4-ports per system, depending on model
Storage controller	(2) HPE MSA 1050 2-port 8 Gb FC Controllers or (2) HPE MSA 1050 2-port 1 Gb iSCSI Controllers or (2) HPE MSA 1050 2-port 10 Gb iSCSI Controllers or (2) HPE MSA 1050 2-port 12 Gb SAS Controllers, depending on model
Storage expansion options	HPE MSA 2050 SFF Disk Enclosure or HPE MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosure
Clustering support	Windows, Linux, HP-UX
SAN backup support	Yes
Storage mirroring support	No
Systems Insight Manager support	Yes
Compatible operating systems	Microsoft Windows Server 2019, Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Red Hat Linux, SuSE SLES Linux, VMware, HP-UX. Detailed information available at: http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock
Form factor	2U rack height
Minimum dimensions ( H x W x D)	3.5 x 19.5 x 17.6 in 8.9 x 49.5 x 44.7 cm
Weight	38.7 lb 17.55 kg
Warranty - year(s) (parts/labor/onsite)	3/0/0
Warranty	Three-year limited warranty, parts exchange Next Business day delivery. For more warranty information refer to http://www.hpe.com/storage/warranty

Hardware Specs:

Rear View

1. Host connection ports*
2. CLI port (mini-USB)
3. Management Ethernet port
4. Expansion port
5. AC power supplies

*8 FC, / 1 and/or 10GbE iSCSI or 12Gb SAS

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Operational Services

• HPE Flexible Capacity is a new consumption model to manage ondemand capacity, combining the agility and economics of public cloud with the security and performance of on-premises IT.
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Advisory Services includes design, strategy, road map, and other services to help enable the digital transformation journey, tuned to IT and business needs. Advisory Services helps customers on their journey to Hybrid IT, Big Data, and the Intelligent Edge.

Professional Services helps integrate the new solution with project management, installation and startup, relocation services, and more. We help mitigate risk to the business so there is no interruption when new technology is being integrated in the existing IT environment.

Documentation:

Download the HPE MSA 1050 SAN Storage Datasheet (.PDF)