Looking for affordable, high-performance shared storage? The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage is a flash ready hybrid storage 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 worldwide [1]. Delivers 2x higher performance [2] 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.

What's new

• New TAA-compliant HPE MSA 2050 Dual Controller Storage Array models including support for SAN SFF and SAN LFF.

Features

Accelerates Applications Affordably

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

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

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

Keep your Business Running with Expanded Data Protection Features

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

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

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.

Technical Specifications

Capacity

• 614 TB SFF or 1344 TB LFF, maximum raw capacity including expansion, depending on model

Form factor

• 2U

Storage expansion options

• Up to 7x HPE MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosures and/or HPE MSA 2050 SFF Disk Enclosures, or 7x HPE MSA 2050 SAN DC-Power Carrier Grade SFF Disk Enclosures depending on array model

Systems Insight Manager support

• Yes

Storage mirroring support

• Yes

SAN backup support

• Yes

Clustering support

• Windows, Linux, HP-UX

Host interface

• 16 Gb/8 Gb Fibre Channel 8-ports per system or 1 GbE/10GbE iSCSI 8-ports per system or 12 Gb SAS 8-ports per system are supported depending on array model

Drive description

• Up to 192 SFF SAS/ENT and/or SAS/SSD, or up to 96 LFF SAS/MDL and/or SAS/SSD, maximum supported including expansion, depending on model and configuration

Storage controller

• 2x HPE MSA 2050 SAN controllers or 2x HPE MSA 2050 SAS controllers supported, depending on model

Compatible operating systems

• Microsoft Windows Server 2019, Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, SuSE SLES Linux, VMware ESXi, OVMS. Detailed information available at: http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock

Product Dimensions (metric)

• 8.9 x 49.5 x 44.7 cm

Product Dimensions (imperial)

• 3.5 x 22.5 x 17.6 in

Weight

• 18.4 kg

Weight

• 40.6 lb