HPE MSA 2050 SAN LFF Storage

HPE MSA Storage has been the industry-leading entry storage Fibre Channel platform for the past eight years, with nearly 500,000 storage systems sold worldwide. Now the HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage system delivers 2x higher performance [1] than the previous generation at the same price, delivering in excess of 200,000 IOPS starting at under $10,000 USD for affordable application acceleration. It’s seriously simple and affordable flash-ready storage to help you get the most performance for the lowest cost.

· 200,000+ IOPS starting at under $10K for affordable application acceleration

­ Flexible base model delivers 2x IOPS performance than the previous generation MSA for the same price.

· Advanced data services with no experience required

­ Easy to install, easy to use, easy to maintain—no storage expertise necessary

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

· Keep your business running with expanded data protection features

­ Virtualized snapshot technology makes data protection and instant recovery a snap

­ Remote replication with FC and iSCSI supports affordable disaster recovery

· Grow flexibly now and into the future

­ Data-in-place upgrades protect drive investments and eliminate data migrations

­ Start small and scale as needed with any combination of SSD, Enterprise or Midline SAS drives

Notes: *Read Cache Only

10K: 600GB, 1.2TB, 1.8TB, 2.4TB

SFF 10K HDD: 1.2TB

LFF 7.2K HDD: 4TB

· MSA 2050 storage system architecture maximizes performance

­ Includes SFF or LFF array chassis, depending on model

­ Two MSA SAS or SAS controllers, depending on model

­ Four host ports per controller

­ Each SAN controller supports 8 Gb FC, 16 Gb FC, 1GbE iSCSI or 10GbE iSCSI. host connectivity

­ Each SAS controller supports 12Gb SAS host connectivity

­ 8 GB cache per controller.

­ Battery-free cache backup with super capacitors and compact flash

Notes: TAA compliant MSA 2050 models each include 2x pre-installed HDDs.  No other MSA 2050 models include pre-installed HDDs.  See “Configuration Information” section for more details.

· MSA 2050 SAN controller allows customers to create their own Combo Controller by mixing FC and iSCSI SFPs.

· Storage Management Utility V3 (SMU). The MSA management GUI brings a new modern look and feel to array management.

· Thin Provisioning allows storage allocation of physical storage resources only once they are consumed by an application. Thin Provisioning also allows over-provisioning of physical storage pool resources allowing ease of growth for volumes without predicting storage capacity upfront.

· All models feature a wide variety of drives: High-performance SSD drives, enterprise-class SAS, and SAS Midline drives.

· The MSA 2050 will support a maximum of 7 disk enclosures (either LFF and/or SFF). Add-on enclosures can either be HPE MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosure or HPE MSA 2050 SFF Disk Enclosure.

· The MSA 2050 can grow incrementally to a maximum of 96 LFF, 192 SFF drives, or a combination of SFF and LFF enclosures up to the maximum of 8 total enclosures.

· Virtual Storage Disks Groups can be spanned across multiple enclosures.

· Virtual Storage RAID levels supported: 1, 5, 6, 10.

· RAID 0 supported for Read Cache only.  SSD read cache is a feature that extends the MSA controller cache. Read cache is most effective for workloads that are high in random reads A maximum of 2 SSDs per pool can be added for read cache.

· Maximum hard drive counts vary by RAID levels: 2 drive max for RAID level 1; max of 16 drives for RAID levels 5, 6, and 10.

· Multiple Disk Groups can be aggregated into a single Storage Pool.

· Storage Pools allow data on a given LUN to span across all drives in a pool. When capacity is added to a system, the user is also getting a performance benefit of the additional spindles.

· The maximum LUN size is 140TB (128TiB)

· Snapshot enhancements for virtual storage, including performance improvements, hierarchical snapshots, and simplified resource management. Administrators can monitor and optionally control snapshot space usage.

· Prioritize data by assigning appropriate affinity level (Performance, No Affinity or Archive)

· Customers can configure 512 TiB capacity per virtual pool by enabling large pool support.

· Non-disruptive on-line controller code upgrade. Requires Multi-pathing software.

· Upgradable by design. Owners of an MSA 2040, MSA 2042 and MSA 1040 array can do data-in-place upgrades to the MSA 2050 array. This unique ability protects the earlier investments in drives, and JBODs.

­ Certain limitations are applicable. Please review the Upgrading to the HPE MSA 1050/2050/2052 Technical Whitepaper before upgrading your MSA 2040, MSA 2042 or MSA 1040 systems

MSA 2050 SAN controller supports 8Gb FC, 16Gb FC, 1GbE iSCSI or 10GbE iSCSI host connectivity.

MSA 2050 SAS controller supports 6Gb and/or 12Gb SAS host connectivity.

Chassis

2U rack height. 12 LFF or 24 SFF drive bays. All MSA 2050 Storage Systems come standard with 2 SAN or SAS controllers, depending on model.

Notes: The MSA 2050 does not support single controller configurations. Single-controller support is provided only when a controller fails over to its partner controller.

The MSA 2050 SAN and SAS Storage systems support a wide variety of the MSA 3.5-inch LFF drives, and the MSA 2.5-inch SFF drives.

· Solid-State Drives (SSDs) deliver the highest levels of performance and reliability.

· Enterprise-class SAS hard disk drives (10K/15K RPM) offer a balance of performance, capacity, and cost while delivering enterprise grade reliability.

· Midline SAS hard disk drives (7.2K RPM) are optimized to provide the best ratio of capacity to cost.

Just as the user has a choice of chassis for the array enclosure (LFF or SFF drive bays), they also have a choice of expansion disk enclosures accommodating either drive size. Both the MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosure and MSA 2050 SFF Disk Enclosure can be hot added to an operating array. SFF and LFF Array enclosures and Disk Enclosures can be mixed without limitations.

MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosure. This 2U enclosure is designed to support twelve HPE Storage LFF drives and accepts MSA dual-ported 12Gb SSD and SAS Midline hard drives. The pre-configured MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosure has two I/O modules and supports the MSA 2050 dual controller arrays.

· The MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosure can be attached to the MSA 2050 LFF or SFF storage models.

· Each MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosure ships standard with two .5m mini-SAS to mini-SAS cables for connection to the MSA 2050 array expansion port or existing disk enclosure cascade port.

· LFF and/or SFF Disk Enclosures can be mixed up to the maximum of 7 total Disk Enclosures

This 2U enclosure is designed to support twenty four HPE Storage 2.5-inch SFF drive bays and accepts MSA dual ported 12Gb SSD, Enterprise SAS, or SAS Midline hard drives. The pre-configured MSA 2050 SFF Disk Enclosure has two I/O modules and supports the MSA 2050 dual controller arrays.

· The MSA 2050 SFF Disk Enclosure can be attached to the MSA 2050 LFF or SFF storage models

· Each MSA 2050 SFF Disk Enclosure ships standard with a two .5m mini-SAS to mini-SAS cables for connection to the MSA 2050 array expansion port or existing disk enclosure cascade port.

· LFF and/or SFF Disk Enclosures can be mixed up to the maximum of 7 total Disk Enclosures.

The MSA 2050 array configurations are designed to allow an installation to begin with smaller capacity and be able to grow gradually as needed. The flexibility of SSD, Enterprise SAS or SAS Midline drives 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 168TB SAS Midline per array enclosure, expandable to 1344TB SAS Midline with the addition of a maximum of seven MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosure.

· Small Form Factor configurations can scale up to 76.8 TB SAS SSDs per array enclosure, expandable to 614.4 TB SAS with the addition of a maximum of seven MSA 2050 SFF Disk Enclosure.

· Users may configure an MSA 2050 SFF array enclosure with MSA 2050 LFF Disk Enclosure. This is an excellent option for a configuration that supports high-speed SFF SSDs or fast SFF enterprise-class SAS drives in the array enclosure, combined with economical LFF drives staged for archival purposes, all in the same array.

A Disk Group is a collection of disks in a given redundancy mode (RAID 1, 5, 6, 10). Disk Group RAID level and size can be created based on performance and/or capacity requirements. Multiple Disk Groups can be allocated into a Storage Pool for use with the Virtual Storage features.

The MSA 2050 arrays support 512 volumes and up to 512 snapshots in a system. All of these volumes can be mapped to LUNs. Maximum LUN sizes up to 140TB (128 TiB). Thin Provisioning allows the user to create the LUNs independent of the physical storage.

Storage Pools are comprised of one or more Disk Groups. A volume’s data on a given LUN can now span all disk drives in a pool. When capacity is added to a system, users will benefit from the performance of all spindles in that pool.

The MSA 2050 supports large, flexible Volumes with sizes up to 128TiB and facilitates seamless capacity expansion. As pools are expanded data automatically reflows to balance capacity utilization on all drives.

The MSA 2050 features several important additional RAID levels. RAID 6 offers 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 and allows large Disk Groups to be created with high performance and mirroring for fault tolerance. RAID 5 combines the block striping and parity. Because data and parity are striped across all the disks, no single disk is a bottleneck. Striping also allows users to reconstruct data in case of a disk failure.  RAID 0 (Striping) is supported for Read Cache only.

Management access, out-of-band, Storage Management Utility (SMU), CLI.

Interface Types: USB 100/1000 Ethernet.

Protocols Supported SNMP, SMI-S, SSH, SMTP, FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet

The MSA 2050 arrays come integrated with web browser and CLI based software for storage and RAID management, setup, configuration, and troubleshooting. The MSA 2050 management supports Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome.

All MSA 2050 models support hot plug expansion and replacement of redundant controllers, enclosures, fans, power supplies, and I/O modules for simple, fast installation and maintenance. Hot add expansion of disk enclosures is also supported.

The MSA 2050 supports most HPE ProLiant, BladeSystems and Integrity servers including

· HPE ProLiant DL, ML Servers

· HPE c-Class Blade Servers

· Integrity servers, IA64

· Compatibility must be confirmed at: http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock

Notes: depends on protocol.

The MSA 2050 supports most multi-vendor industry standard Intel and AMD based (x86) servers. Hewlett Packard Enterprise requires the Third-Party Server to be logged and listed on the Microsoft Windows Server Catalog.

· Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends that the Third-Party Server Vendor is an active member of TSANet. Refer to the TSANet website for details: http://www.tsanet.com

· Non-HPE servers will generally be supported if the HPE storage stack is used. This includes supported HPE branded HBAs and drivers, and supported FC switches.

Refer to the Hewlett Packard Enterprise support statements for complete current OS version support:

http://www.hpe.com/storage/spock

· Microsoft Windows Server 2019

· Microsoft Windows Server 2016

· Microsoft Windows Server 2012

· VMware

· HP-UX

· Red Hat Linux

· SuSE SLES Linux

· Solaris

· Oracle Linux

· Citrix XenServer

· OpenVMS

Notes: depends on protocol.

The HPE MSA Advanced Data Services Suite can be purchased as an option on the MSA 2050 Storage systems. The Advanced Data Service Suite is included as a standard feature on the MSA 2052 at no extra charge. See the MSA 2052 QuickSpecs for more information.

The optional Advanced Data Services Suite includes the following functionality:

· Performance Tiering and Archive Tiering

· 512 Snapshots and Volume Copy

· Remote Snaps

Disk tiers are comprised of aggregating 1 or more Disk Groups of similar physical disks. The MSA 2050 supports 3 distinct tiers:

· A Performance tier with SSDs

· A Standard SAS tier with Enterprise SAS HDDs

· An Archive tier utilizing Midline SAS HDDs.

The MSA 2050 supports sub-LUN tiering and automated data movement between tiers. The MSA 2050 automated tiering engine moves data between available tiers based on the access characteristics of that data. Frequently accessed “pages” will migrate to the highest available tier delivering maximum I/O´s to the application.

Configurations which have a mixture of both SSDs and HDDs within the same system being used as a capacity Tier (excluding SSD Read Cache), will require the Advanced Data Service Suite LTU. This rule applies to the system level and therefore the license is required regardless of whether the drives are configured for auto-tiering within the same Pool. All-SSD configurations and SSD Read Cache extension do not require a license on the MSA2050 array.

· All MSA 2050 arrays come standard with 64 snaps.

· A 512 Snapshot license is available as an option on the MSA 2050

· Snapshots create up to 512 point-in-time copies of data

· Volume Copies create up to 128 point-in-time copies of data

· Volume copies become standard volumes when they are complete

· Recovery is instant – revert data from any previous Snapshot or Volume Copy

· Backup ‘snapped’ data to disk, virtual tape, or physical tape without a backup window

· If telephone support and software updates are desired for bundled software functionalities like 64 snapshots and volume copy software, a combination HW + SW support care pack must be purchased.

· Hewlett Packard Enterprise does not provide warranty assistance for software products included with our base hardware products. Support is available with either the SupportPlus or SupportPlus24 Service options the hardware warranty component of these services is accounted for in the pricing of the SP and SP24 HPE Pointnext operational.

HPE MSA Remote Snap Software is array-based software that provides remote replication on the HPE MSA 2050 array products.

MSA Remote Snap is a form of asynchronous replication which consists of replication of block-level data from a volume on a local

system to a volume on a second independent system. This second system may be co-located with the first system or may be

located at a remote site.

· HPE Remote Snap functionality is based on existing Snapshot technology offered by HPE MSA array products. Snapshots are used to track the data to be replicated as well as to determine the differences in data updated on the primary volume, minimizing the amount of data to be transferred.

· HPE Remote Snap replication technology provides the ability to accomplish key data management and protection capabilities. First, because Remote Snap uses snapshots as the underlying technology it creates multiple local recovery points which can be used for such tasks as to complement daily backups; second, replication provides the ability to access data in a remote site which could be used for dispersed operations; and third but definitely not least important replication allows for business continuance in the event of a failure on the primary site.

· In order to perform a replication, a snapshot of the volume to be replicated is taken, creating a point-in-time image of the data. This point-in-time image is then replicated to the destination volume by copying the data represented by the snapshot via a transport medium such as TCP/IP (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel. The amount of data transferred is minimized though the use of snapshots whenever possible.

· Storage based asynchronous snapshot replication

· Support of both Ethernet and Fibre Channel interconnects provides flexible options to the application environments.

· Snapshot based replication technology means only changed data will be replicated to alternate site

· Many to 1 replication (up to 4 nodes) – primary use case is to replicate from “many” branch offices to the home office for the purpose of backing up data from the branches

· Advanced scheduler provides several options to IT administrators for business continuance

· Flexible architecture allows remote replication between MSA 2050 and MSA 2040 or MSA 1040 arrays using the virtual storage architecture and licensed for Remote Snap. Protects existing investments and enhances business continuity planning objectives.

· Remote replication is supported between the MSA 2052 and the MSA 1060, 2060 and 2062 Storage arrays.

· Snapshot based replication enables both local and remote recovery depending on the need. Snapshot replication isolates problems to a specific point in time which can be selected by the administrator. Additionally, snapshot replication supports longer distance replication.

· Multiple relationships provide greater storage flexibility and utilization.

· 512 Snapshots and Volume Copy integration provides better efficiencies by combining the management and array technologies to create local copies.

· Fast application recovery with minimal or no transaction loss

· Creation of disaster tolerant copies of your critical business data

· No-single-point-of-failure solution to increase the availability of your data

Notes:  One Advanced Data Services Suite License per array is required for replication. For example, if you have two MSA arrays performing replication (from Primary system to Remote System), you will need a total of 2 licenses.

HPE OneView for VMware vCenter is a component within the HPE OneView plug-in for vCenter. It enables vSphere administrators to quickly obtain context-aware information and manage supported HPE storage devices like the MSA in their VMware vSphere environment directly from within vCenter. This plug-in operates independently of the core HPE OneView product and does not require a license to use.  By providing a clear relationship between VM’s, datastores and storage, the VMware administrator’s productivity increases, as does the ability to ensure quality of service. Roles for administrators can be defined on an individual basis, providing the ability to apply specific permissions for both view and control functions.

HPE OneView for VMware vCenter supports mixed array environments including MSA Storage, and other HPE Storage systems including 3PAR Storage, Nimble Storage, StoreVirtual and StoreOnce.

When deployed with MSA Storage, HPE OneView provides the following:

· Active Management functionality for the MSA Storage:

­ Create/Expand/Delete a Datastore

­ Create a Virtual Machine from a template

· Monitors the health and status of the MSA Storage

· Displays LUN / volume connections from VMs and ESX servers to the arrays and provides the location and attributes of the MSA array within the SAN

· Identifies what storage features are available to allow administrators to match the features available on the MSA array to their requirements

· Provide a cluster-level view of the storage

· HPE OneView for VMware vCenter is downloadable from Software Depot:

https://h20392.www2.hpe.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPVPR

HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center provides a comprehensive integration of HPE Storage, HPE Servers, HPE Blade System and HPE Virtual Connect with Microsoft System Center. HPE OneView for System Center enables management and monitoring of HPE MSA Storage running in Microsoft environment with a single pane-of-glass view to events/alerts, capacity and health dashboards and detailed virtual infrastructure information.  It provides seamless integration with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) enabling predefined discovery and monitoring policies, event processing rules and topology views for HPE Storage including the MSA Storage Systems.

When deployed with the MSA 2050 array, HPE OneView for System Center provides the following:

· Monitors the health, events and alerts for the MSA 2050 – virtual pools, and volumes

· Provides topology information for VMs provisioned on the MSA Storage array

HPE OneView for System Center is downloadable at no charge from Software Depot:

https://h20392.www2.hpe.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=System_Center

The vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) is one of the storage application programming interface (API) sets in vSphere. VAAI is an API storage partners can leverage to enhance performance of virtual machine (VM) management operations by delegating these operations to the storage array. With hardware offload, ESX/ESXi hosts perform certain operations faster and consume less server CPU,  memory resources, and storage port/storage fabric bandwidth. VAAI includes high performance and scalable VM data path primitives.

Storage Hardware Primitives for VAAI

· Full Copy or Hardware Assisted Move

· Block Zeroing or Hardware Assisted Zeroing

· Hardware Assisted Locking or Atomic Test and Set (ATS)

· UNMAP reclaims space that is no longer on a thinly provisioned VMFS volume

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an IP network. LDAP provides the ability to authenticate MSA users with a central directory.

· Domain or Directory Credentials are not stored on the MSA for authentication – avoids a security issue

· Once user groups are configured on all MSAs in your organization, users can be authenticated on any MSA through the Active Directory

· Uses an LDAP implementation to authenticate users with a Windows Active Directory

· The MSA CLI and SMU will allow the configuration of new LDAP users groups into the MSA security scheme (manage vs monitor users, interface restrictions Web/CLI/FTP)

· Ability to authenticate Local or LDAP users

A user interface element called “I/O Workload” has been added to the main screen on MSA’s WBI home screen for GL270 or later firmware. The MSA array controllers keep track of a substantial amount of data pertaining to the I/O dynamics at a logical page level (4MB chunks). From this data, it is possible to provide some visibility to what percent (%) of I/O’s are being processed by what percent (%) of the overall array’s capacity across a 7 day timeline. While some workloads have “transient” data access patterns, many workloads have steady access patterns on small portions of the array’s capacity. This produces “hot” pages in the array which remain hot a large amount of the array’s uptime. Users would see substantial benefits if these pages could be served from the fastest media in the array (ideally SSDs). As has been described in the MSA’s tiering functionality, the MSA array’s tiering engine will work to position the hottest pages on the fastest media at any given time.

The I/O Workload graph will show a line labeled Capacity and a line plot for each selected workload percentage (100%, 80%, or Other% value). Below are two examples of user scenarios where the I/O Workload Graph might be useful and how to utilize the data the graph provides.

· New User or SSD Installation

· Once the MSA array is installed and has had workloads running against it for a week’s time, the I/O Workload data will give a representation of what Capacity is servicing 100% of I/O and 80% of I/O. Users may select a custom % value if desired. In a new installation or in an installation with no SSD tier installed, the 80% line is a reasonable starting point for an SSD tier. Based on SSD RAID settings, customers can then calculate a good starting point with regard to SSD tier sizing based on that week’s workload.  While not a hard-fast rule, it is a good starting point. These values should also be compared to the Best Practices “rule of thumb” which suggest that 5-15% of the array’s capacity should be SSDs for tiered solutions.

· Users with existing SSD tiering or read caching installed and running

· For arrays running with SSDs installed (tiered or read cache), the I/O Workload graph will have a dotted line which shows the installed SSD capacity. The I/O Workload graphs can be checked periodically to see where the 80% I/O line is with regard to the SSD capacity line. While there are no hard and fast rules which indicate good/bad situations, users can use the graph with other system performance tools to better understand specific dynamics of their installation and the normal dynamics of a system in the day-to-day activities for a specific environment.

Interpreting the I/O Workload graphs allow users to strike a balance between the SSD costs versus performance benefits. For example, some customers may be willing to have a couple of days where peak usage is far above the SSD capacity line as it may be acceptable to have slower performance as the system uses HDDs for a larger percentage of the workload I/O. This may be perfectly acceptable for systems sized to optimize $/TB due to budget constraints. Other users may want to optimize the system such that a sizeable percentage of daily I/O can reside on SSD media (sized to 80% or 90%). When combined with other performance monitoring tools, the I/O Workload function gives users some representation as to how the workloads and the MSA are working together in a user’s real-world environment.

The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage systems are ENERGY STAR certified. ENERGY STAR certified products are energy efficient which result in cost savings via reduced energy consumption and regulatory rebates. Please refer to the US EPA website for details on ENERGY STAR certification criteria and process. MSA 2050 ENERGY STAR Certification is listed on the EPA website.

The HPE MSA 2050 SAN and SAS NEBS Certified DC-Power Storage systems are designed for network equipment providers (NEPs) and communication service providers.  The NEBS compliant MSA 2050 Storage system (Q1J04A and Q1J32A) supports configurations with up to 7 compliant disk enclosures for a maximum of 192 SFF HDDs or SSDs.

The HPE MSA 2050 SAN and SAS DC-power LFF Storage systems (Q179A and Q2P39A) include two (DC) power supplies but are not NEBS certified. The two power supplies are designed to operate over the input range of -40VDC to -75VDC.

The HPE MSA 2050 DC-power Carrier Grade SFF Disk Enclosure (Q1J05A) is a special model disk enclosure designed for use with NEBS compliant MSA 2050 configurations. This drive enclosure has 24 drive bays and has dual -48VDC-power supplies. It is only sold with carrier grade arrays.

When used in conjunction with specific Storage SFF SAS drives, the solution is NEBS certified (GR-63-Core and GR-1089-Core) and Seismic Zone 4 rated. NEBS level-3 certification provides the assurance that the equipment is safe to operate and sturdy enough to withstand certain physical and environmental (for example, fire, earthquakes) conditions. For Seismic Zone 4 rating, the MSA 2050 must be mounted in an HPE Seismic Rack (AH335A).

TAA refers to the Trade Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. § 2501–2581), which is intended to foster fair and open international trade. TAA requires that products must be produced or undergo “substantial transformation” within the United States or a designated country.  HPE offers multiple 2050 and 2052 models that are TAA compliant.  Please refer to the “Configuration Information” section for more details regarding models that are designated TAA compliant.

Solutions

The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage is the ideal solution for customers running Oracle, Microsoft, SAP environments and those customers who are deploying virtual server technologies like VMware and Hyper-V. The MSA 2050 delivers enterprise functionality that enhances virtual environments, simplifies management, and reduces costs. Easy to deploy, scale and maintain, HPE MSA 2050 Arrays ensure that crucial business data remains available.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has developed best-in-class expertise in Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and Virtualization Hypervisor technology through extensive testing with the HPE MSA 2050, HPE servers, and management software; high availability and disaster recovery solutions; and backup and recovery on the Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP application platforms.

Learn more

To learn more about specific HPE Storage Solutions that are built with Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and Virtualization environments in mind, visit the solution sites supporting each of these applications.

HPE MSA Storage hyperlink to: http://www.hpe.com/storage/MSA

HPE MSA Storage users can leverage Zerto Virtual Replication to replicate applications and data from one MSA array to another MSA array. Popular use cases include departmental MSA storage replicated to enterprise storage, enterprise storage replicated into MSA array, or protect MSA workloads into the cloud.

Zerto operates on the hypervisor level and includes orchestration and automation built-in to enable faster recovery of workloads (RTO in minutes) at much lower Recovery Point Objective (RPO of seconds) available through other data protection tools like backup. Zerto is also a workload mobility tool and allow IT to confidently move workloads and data across heterogeneous storage or cloud.

Ordering, configuring and installing Zerto is simple. Zerto is licensed by number of Virtual Machines that are being protected or moved.  For mobility use cases, order the appropriate number of migration licenses needed.  For replication use cases, order the appropriate quantity of Zerto Virtual Replication licenses using a combination of the tiered licenses plus the corresponding maintenance part numbers. The license is independent of source and target array size, type or capacity being replicated. See the HPE Complete/Zerto Quickspec for a complete list of part numbers. A corresponding MSA Advanced Data Services LTU is not required for data replication when using Zerto Virtual Replication. An MSA Advanced Data Services LTU would be required if deploying MSA array-based replication.

Zerto installs as a virtual machine under VMware or Hyper-V or in the Cloud as a VM in AWS and Azure in minutes Zerto does not install any components in the guest operating system and does not depend on any specific configuration of the storage or use MSA array or VMware snapshots to replicate and recover applications.

Zerto virtual replication is available on HPE Catalog via HPE Complete program.

For more information on the HPE Complete – Zerto solution, visit;

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getdocument.aspx?docname=a00006013enw

Arxscan is an HPE Complete Partner delivering innovative software that drives value through unique enterprise data center monitoring and reporting.  Arxscan provides infrastructure monitoring for Storage, Network, Servers and Applications.  Arxscan is fully supported on the HPE MSA 1050, 2050 and 2052 storage arrays, and is available for purchase directly from HPE.  Arxscan’s intuitive dashboard delivers an unprecedented view of how organizations store, distribute and protect their data, providing relevant views around device quality and performance metrics.  Benefits include:

· Remote delivery from any location to any location worldwide.

· Supports all SAN/NAS storage OEM product lines, SAN switch and server OS platforms without agents.

· Quickly installed in under two hours in SMB, midrange or enterprise customer environments.

· Presents views that are business operations and infrastructure/system operations centric.

· Creates global collaborative touch points for all users of local and remote data center resources.

· One Stop Shop – ability to purchase complete solutions from HPE that include both HPE products and best-in-class third party branded products, all on a single HPE purchase order.

For more information please refer to HPE Complete on HPE.com