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Msa 2040 quickspecs12/17/2022 ![]() After turning it on, I immediately went to HPE’s website and downloaded the latest firmware for both the drives, and the controllers themselves. I’m completely new to the MSA 2040 SAN and have actually never played with, or configured one. As always, using intelligent provisioning on the D元60p, we had ESXi up and running in seconds with it installed to the on-board 8GB micro-sd card. I must say that configuration was an absolute breeze. The SAN will connect to each server with 2 X 10Gb DAC cables, one going to Controller A, and one going to Controller B. To connect the SAN to the servers, we purchased 2 X HPE Dual Port 10Gb Server SFP+ NICs, one for each server. We also placed an order for 4 X 10Gb DAC cables. Even though we have the 4 1Gb iSCSI modules, we aren’t using them to connect to the SAN. ![]() We purchased it as a CTO (Configure to Order), and loaded it up with 4 X 1Gb iSCSI RJ45 SFP+ modules (there’s a minimum requirement of 1 4-pack SFP), and 24 X HPE 900Gb 2.5inch 10k RPM SAS Dual Port Enterprise drives. Now for storage, we decided to pull the trigger and purchase an HPE MSA 2040 Dual Controller SAN. The Purchaseįor the server, we purchased another HPE Proliant D元60p Gen8 (with 2 X 10 Core Processors, and 128Gb of RAM, exact same as our existing server), however I won’t be getting that in to this blog post. This is how we got started with the HPE MSA 2040 SAN (formerly known as the HP MSA 2040 SAN), specifically a fully loaded HPE MSA 2040 Dual Controller SAN unit. As a result of this, we needed to purchase more servers, and implement an enterprise grade SAN. In the last few months, my company ( Digitally Accurate Inc.) and our sister company ( Wagner Consulting Services), have been working on a number of new cool projects. ![]()
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