Technical specifications
HPE HPE MSA 2060 Storage — Full Technical Specifications
The MSA 2060 is HPE's entry shared-storage array: two active controllers in one enclosure, presented to hosts over the block protocols most estates already run. It is bought by organisations that need shared storage behind a small virtualisation cluster and do not want to run a storage platform as a project. It is supplied new and configured to order.
Official datasheet
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Full Specifications
Read the host-protocol row before anything else, because it is the compatibility question and everything else is negotiable by comparison — an array that cannot speak to your existing fabric is not a cheaper array, it is a different project. Next the drive and expansion rows together: this family grows by adding shelves, and the sensible plan is to buy the controller enclosure that suits the growth rather than the one that suits today. Performance figures here are laboratory maxima under a stated profile and will not be reproduced by a mixed workload, so use them to rank models rather than to size a deployment. The protection-level row is where the family's own layout option lives, and it behaves differently from classical arrangements on rebuild.
| Form Factor | 2U LFF (12-bay) or SFF (24-bay) storage array |
| Controllers | 2 active/active, 8 host ports per array (4 per controller) |
| Host Protocols | 8/16 Gb FC, 10/25 GbE iSCSI, 1/10GBase-T, 12 Gb SAS |
| Cache | 24 GB (data + system), max read cache 8 TB |
| Max IOPS | 395,000 random reads |
| Max Raw Capacity | 7.37 PB (all SFF) / 2.88 PB (all LFF) |
| Max Drives | 240 SFF or 120 LFF |
| Expansion Enclosures | Up to 9 (mix LFF/SFF) |
| RAID | 0 (read cache only), 1, 5, 6, 10, MSA-DP+ |
| Max Volumes | 512 |
| Drive Types | SFF/LFF SAS SSD (up to 7.68 TB), SFF 10K HDD, LFF 7.2K HDD (up to 24 TB), SED |
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