QuickSpecs
HP StorageWorks 2000fc G2 Modular Smart Array
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Scalability | The MSA2300fc G2 controller is designed to allow an installation to begin |
| with smaller capacity and be able to grow gradually as needed. The flexibility |
| of SAS or SATA drive technology, form factors, sizes, speeds, and costs per GB |
| allows a system to easily fit in almost any budget. |
| Large Form Factor configurations can scale up to 5.4 TB SAS or 12 TB |
| SATA, expandable to 27 TB SAS or 60 TB SATA with the addition of a |
| maximum of four MSA2000 |
| Small Form Factor configurations can scale from 3.5 TB SAS or 6 TB |
| SATA. With the addition of three MSA70 JBODs, the MSA2324fc G2 |
| can support 14.4 TB SAS or 24.7 TB SATA. |
| Users may configure a |
| to three |
| excellent method for a configuration that support fast SFF enterprise- |
| class SAS drives in the array head, combined with economical LFF drives |
| staged for archival purposes, all in the same array. |
| Qualification of larger capacity drives is ongoing. |
LUNs | The MSA2000 family of arrays supports 512 LUNs (total volumes in a dual |
| controller system) and LUN sizes up to 16 TB. The array supports expansion |
| and deletion of any LUN. |
RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, In addition to the usual RAID levels, the MSA2000 family features several | |
50 | important additional levels. RAID 6 is 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. It is the most |
| popular of the multiple RAID levels, allowing large arrays with high |
| performance in most cases and superior fault tolerance. RAID 50 combines |
| the block striping and parity of RAID 5 with the straight block striping of RAID |
| 0, yielding higher performance than RAID 5 through the addition of RAID 0, |
| particularly during writes. |
Performance | Performance numbers are a guideline as established by tests in a lab |
| environment. 96 72 GB 15K SAS drives were used in dual controller |
| configurations of eight 12 Disk vdisks, eight 806 GB volumes, and two |
| volumes per host. |
Number and type of applications along with the number of hosts will affect overall performance.
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