HPE has announced the next generation of their Modular Smart Array, HPE MSA Gen 6, ideal for small and medium sized businesses looking for an affordable hybrid-flash entry level storage solution. Just like with the previous generation of arrays there are 3 models, depending on the needs of the customer. Models The MSA 1060 replaces […]
HPE announced earlier this year its 5th generation MSA storage with the 2050 and 2052 flash-enabled systems, now it completes the stack with the entry level 1050 model. The HPE MSA 1050 Storage brings affordable flash storage down to ever lower customer segments. The MSA 1050 is designed to meet entry-level storage requirements and budgetary […]
Last year I wrote about the MSA 2042 being launched being a flash enabled performance model of the MSA 2040. Today HPE announced the 5th generation of its entry level storage platform: MSA 2050 and MSA 2052. So what’s new? What do you expect: faster CPU’s and double the cache compared to the previous generation […]
Together with the new StoreVirtual 3200 platform, HPE announced at the same time an upgrade of its popular MSA platform. Besides the existing MSA 1040 and MSA 2040 there is now an hybrid MSA 2042 as well. The main difference with the existing models is the standard (dual) SSD drives (LFF or SFF) in the […]
With the release of the latest firmware code GL220, the MSA 1040 gets a serious performance boost with the added SSD support. So far SSD support was only available on the MSA 2040. MSA 1040 gets SSD Now the entry level MSA 1040 gets the ability of all virtualization features that were available only on […]
HP released today an update for its MSA storage line. So what, you may think? Well it is a quite important one. This update will add several virtualization features into the entry-level storage MSA portfolio. And there is also a really cool new GUI interface. By installing this new firmware you will get 6 new functions: […]
HP announced today the release of their next (4th) generation of its entry level storage platform MSA. Last year there was the announcement of the MSA2040 besides the existing P2000 G3 array. MSA2040 featured more performance thanks to the availability of more cache in the controller (4GB), 16Gb FC connectivity and SSD support. This made […]
HP released a new whitepaper for small and midsize businesses that are planning to deploy and virtualize Exchange on HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 Servers and HP MSA 2040 Storage. The solution allows the use of the Exchange mailbox resiliency database availability group (DAG) feature with the high-availability features of the HP MSA 2040 Storage; providing […]
HP released a new technical whitepaper that provides information on an HP MSA 2040 Array and HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server with HP SN1000E 16Gb 2-port PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters storage solution for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2013 (Exchange), based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) –Storage program. This solution implements the Database […]
The choice for storage design for Exchange 2007 isn?t quite as straightforward as it used to be for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Exchange 2003 was very demanding on storage and typically performed best on arrays that supported many numbers of spindles needed for the maximum I/O performance. With Exchange 2007 the performance demand has diminished […]