HPE MSA 2050 SAN Dual Controller SFF Storage
Disk Storage Systems

Overview:

Looking for affordable, high-performance shared storage? The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage is a flash ready system designed for affordable application acceleration ideal for small and remote office deployments. Don’t let the low cost fool you, it gives you the combination of simplicity, flexibility to grow now, and advanced features you may not expect in an entry-priced array. Start small and scale as needed with any combination of solid state drives (SSDs), high-performance enterprise, or lower-cost midline SAS-based hard disk drives (HDDs). HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage has been the industry-leading entry storage Fibre Channel (FC) platform for the past eight years, with nearly 500,000 systems sold worldwide1. Delivers 2x higher performance2 than the previous generation at the same price, delivering in excess of 200,000 IOPS. It’s seriously simple and affordable flash-ready storage to help you get the most performance for the lowest cost.

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

Features:

Affordable Application Acceleration

The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage performs at 200,000 IOPS delivering affordable application acceleration for small to medium-sized businesses both local and remote.

Flexible base model delivers 2X more performance than the previous generation HPE MSA 2040 SAN Storage for the same price.

Advanced Data Services With No Experience Required

The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage is easy to install, easy to use, easy to maintain, no previous storage expertise required.

Automated tiering dynamically responds to workload changes, so you don’t have to.

Keep Your Business Running with Expanded Data Protection Features

The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage delivers updated virtualized snapshot technology making data protection and instant recovery a snap.

Remote replication with Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI supports an affordable disaster recovery solution.

Encrypted SSDs and HDDs for a data secure hybrid flash array.

Grow Flexibly Now and Into the Future

The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage supports data-in-place upgrades protecting drive investments and reduces data migrations.

Start small and scale as needed with any combination of SSDs, enterprise or midline SAS HDDs.

¹ Performance based on comparison of HPE MSA 2042 SAN Storage to the HPE MSA 2052 SAN Storage systems using 16 Gb Fibre Channel 'Virtual' storage, Mixed Use SSDs, RAID 1, 8K Random Reads and Writes. IOPS: MSA 2052 Random Reads 220,600 MSA 2042 Random Reads 96,000 Improvement: 2.3x MSA 2052 Random Writes 102,800 MSA 2042 Random Writes 40,500 Improvement: 2.5x

Specifications:

HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage Specifications
Capacity	614 TB SFF maximum raw capacity
Drive description	24 SFF SAS/MDL SAS/SSD
Host interface	One 16 Gb/8 Gb Fibre Channel 4-ports per controller or one 1GbE/10GbE iSCSI 4-ports per controller is included
Storage controller	Two HPE MSA 2050 SAN controllers included
Storage expansion options	HPE MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosure or HPE MSA 2050 SFF Disk Enclosure
Clustering support	Windows, Linux, HP-UX
SAN backup support	Yes
Systems Insight Manager support	Yes
Compatible operating systems	Microsoft Windows Server 2019, Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, VMware, 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	40.6 lb 18.4 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:

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

*8 and/or 16Gb 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.
• HPE Datacenter Care offers a tailored operational support solution built on core deliverables. It includes hardware and software support, a team of experts to help personalize deliverables and share best practices, as well as optional building blocks to address specific IT and business needs.
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• HPE Foundation Care helps when there is a hardware or software problem offering several response levels dependent on IT and business requirements.

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 2050 SAN Storage Datasheet (.PDF)