Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the latest generation of its HPE Modular Smart Array (MSA), HPE MSA Gen 6. This new generation is an entry-level hybrid-flash storage solution for small to medium businesses that leans toward performance and automation with a friendlier SMB budget. The new MSA can also be used to easily backup to the cloud with HPE Cloud Volumes Backup.
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the latest generation of its HPE Modular Smart Array (MSA), HPE MSA Gen 6. This new generation is an entry-level hybrid-flash storage solution for small to medium businesses that leans toward performance and automation with a friendlier SMB budget. The new MSA can also be used to easily backup to the cloud with HPE Cloud Volumes Backup.
SMBs are going through their digital transformation the same as the big guys. However, they have a much more limited budget. The needs are the same, but the money isn’t. So, HPE is releasing its new HPE MSA Gen 6 new data services and modern architecture but at a lower price. The latest MSA is also geared for on-demand businesses (with online education being a big thing at the moment). MSA is said to enable customers to better manage distributed applications and workloads more easily, as well.
The HPE MSA Gen 6 comes in three models; 1060, 2060, and 2062. The MSA 1060 comes with two controllers per array, two hosts per controller, either 16 Gb FC, 1/10GbE iSCSI (10GBase-T), or 12 Gb SAS connectivity, performance is quoted at 254K IOPS with 6.6GB/s throughput and up to 668TB of capacity in either SFF or LFF disks.
The MSA 2060 also has two controllers per array with hour host ports per controller, the same connectivity options as the MSA 1060 but with bigger performance numbers of 325K IOPS and 13.1GB/s and up to 192TB of raw capacity.
The HPE MSA 2062 is a flash-ready 2060 bundle with 2×1.92 TB RI SSDs preinstalled and an advanced data services license included.
We have previously reviewed the MSA 2052 and eagerly await seeing this refreshed version in our lab.
Pricing and Availability
The HPE MSA Gen 6 is now available starting under $7,000.
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