Hey guys, huddle up! It's time for another Around the Storage Block Chalk Talk.
In this Chalk Talk, I'm going to introduce you to the HPE MSA Gen6 Storage Array.
SMT IT challenges are a balancing game of flat or declining budgets, complex infrastructure,
and risks coming at you from everywhere. Pretty much the same problems as
enterprises. Introducing the HPE MSA Gen6 Storage Array:
designed for small and mid-sized businesses. It's the definition of
simplicity, delivers amazing performance and has
unmatched affordability for an entry array.
Let me show you how. First let's look at the design
factors: a new controller architecture with an Acceleration ASIC,
12 Gb SAS backend and more resources for modern features.
It makes simple simpler because it's easy to set up, use, and manage
and it has amazingly affordable performance with more controller
horsepower, more cache, and smart tiering. Next technology leadership: hands-free
tiering with tiering that adapts to workload changes all the time.
And ProLiant is our second nature with nearly three decades of better together
compute and storage. An active active design, embracing and
supporting single and dual pool designs. The MSA Gen6 is simple made simpler:
sizing and configuration is simple with very modular design to meet your
requirements. 100% automated tiering where even a small
amount of SSD boosts performance immediately. And simple and flexible
setup: no special array knowledge needed with
an incredibly intuitive user interface.
The MSA health check tool is something we introduced in the last year.
Check out my ATSB podcast #275. Onboard analytics inside the MSA Gen6
and Health Check uses that data for cloud-based analytics.
It's a path to HPE InfoSight. It plums MSA infrastructure using best practices
from InfoSight. And the benefits? Alerts, firmware issues,
and best practices violations, which are 76% of support calls, are caught
and will improve availability and uptime. The new MSA Gen6 also has a new storage
management utility or SMU. What you need is available at a glance
and the guided workflows make every click more powerful during setup
phases. Also more intuitive so there are less
mistakes and you can do it all without the manual.
Let's talk performance. The MSA Gen6 is capable of 325,000 IOPS.
That's a 45% increase over the previous generation
and this is delivered through a hands-free automated tiering engine that has a
simple setup and automatically responds to changes in I/O in real time. It lets
you set it and forget it. And the MSA continues on
almost 30 years of doing things right in entry storage,
building on a familiar technology base is important. Contrast that with
discontinuities through the years with the other entry array vendors.
And i want to spend 30 seconds looking at the use cases for the MSA Gen6.
Rock solid storage for today's SMBs. All your applications,
all day, all night, all year. Set it and forget it
and sleep well. And i mentioned up to 325,000 IOPS -
and that's with an array that starts at under $10,000 USD.
Using SDDs in a hybrid configuration can result in two to four times improved
performance and the tiering 2.0 engine is 45%
more efficient than the prior generation. And MSA-DP+ speeds rebuilds by up to
25 times, improving availability. And then there's
distributed storage for branch sites that's affordable easy to deploy and
manage. I'll show you the product family next
but the new MSA 1060 starts at under $7000 USD.
Add a couple of SSDs and hands-free tiering and boost performance by 2-to-4x.
And there are thousands of MSAs today in
branch site settings. Before i wrap up i have to show you the
HPE MSA Gen6 product family. First is the budget
optimized MSA 1060 starting at under $7000,
and it's flash ready. The array enclosure is small form factor drives only but you
can expand with up to three additional disk enclosures
for either 96 small form factor drives or a mix of 24 small form factor and
36 large form factor drives. The MSA 2060 is the flexible base model
that gives you an a la carte storage option
and it's also flash ready. The MSA 2062 is performance optimized hybrid flash
that comes with SSDs. Both the 2060 and 2062 array enclosures can be either
large or small form factor drives. They expand with up to 9 disk enclosures
and either 240 small form factor drives,
120 large form factor drives or various mixes.
I'm excited to show you the new HPE MSA Gen6 Storage Array:
simplicity defined, amazing performance and unmatched affordability in an entry
array. To learn more go to hpe.com/storage/msa
Always love to hear from you on twitter where you can find me as @CalvinZito.
You can find my blog at hpe.com/storage/blog . Until next time, thanks for joining
me on this Around the Storage Block Chalk Talk