Shiny New Thing: HP Storage MSA 2040 SAN

July 15, 2013 John Obeto

HP’s powerful new entry-level SAN, the HP Storage MSA 2040 SAN, is now at our NE Colorado LogikLabs for a short-term - ~90-day – review.

As I mentioned here and here, this delectable device will be taking the place of our P2000 entry-level SANs.

The MSA 2040, for me, was the silent hit of HP Discover 2013. So much so that an intrepid independent industry blogger, and consultant bought one off the floor to replace his CLARiiON SAN with!

Well, I have one of those devices here, and from the shipping manifest, it contains:

1x SFF MSA 2040 chassis
2x MSA 2040 SAN Controller
10x 300GB 10k SFF drives
2x 200GB SFF SSD

I have received, under separate cover, a couple of SFP FC modules and cables for the device, and I am looking forward to workin’ the MSA 2040.

Stay tuned

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