MSA 2040 Specification

Capacity Single Enclosure and Maximum Additional Drive Enclosures

LFF: 120 TB (single LFF array-head -using 12 x 10TB LFF SAS MDL drives) 960 TB (7 LFF Disk Enclosures behind LFF Array & using 10TB LFF SAS MDL drives)

SFF: 76.8 TB (single SFF array-head – using 24 x 3.2TB SFF SSD drives) 637 TB (7 SFF Disk Enclosures behind SFF Array & using 3.2TB SFF SSD drives)

NOTE: 1) maximum available storage capacity depends on the RAID level being implemented

Pool Capacity

GL200: 169 TB (154 TiB)

GL210: 219 TB (200 TiB)

GL220: 329 TB (300 TiB)

GL220 with Large Pool Support: 562 TB (512 TiB)

NOTE: 1) The above pool capacities by firmware release apply to virtual storage only 2) The above capacities are usable capacity/pool. Each MSA system can support two pools. Therefore each MSA storage system can have double the usable capacity listed above

Cache

6 GB per controller

NOTE: 6GB cache includes Data (Read/Write) cache = 4GB and Metadata and System OS memory= 2GB

Total LUNs (LUN size are dependent of the storage architecture: Linear vs. Virtualized)

512 maximum LUN size: 140TB (128TiB) Thin Provisioning allows you to create the LUNs independent of the physical storage

Host Interconnect

MSA 2040 SAN controller will support up to four connections with options of 16Gb, 8Gb FC and 10GbE, 1GbE iSCSI per controller.

MSA 2040 SAS controller will support up to four 6Gb/12Gb SAS connections per controller using miniSAS HD cables

Maximum Drives w/ 3 expansion

96 LFF/199 SFF

Maximum Host Supported

64 in v2 UI

512 in v3 UI

Standard Software

Snapshots (64)

Optional Software

Remote Snap (linear storage only)

Max Snapshot (512)

Performance Tiering