Description

Easily managed, highly affordable, highly efficient and flexible storage consolidation

The HPE P2000 G3 MSA Array Systems deliver low cost, consolidated storage array solutions to meet departmental and small to medium businesses requirements with 8 Gb Fiber Channel, Combo FC/iSCSI, 6 Gb SAS, and 1 Gb or 10 GbE iSCSI systems accommodating LFF and SFF SAS, SAS MDL, and SATA MDL drives. The P2000 G3 MSA offers single controller models for low initial investment, or dual controllers for higher data protection. The FC/iSCSI Combo controller allows sharing of resources between different departments with the most cost-effective protocol. A wide choice of drive types means a high ROI.

Start small and grow in number of supported servers and total capacity

The P2000 G3 MSA arrays can support 7 LFF enclosures and 96 drives or 5 SFF enclosures and a maximum of 149 drives. Single or dual controllers accommodate any budget. Powerful controllers (FC, FC/iSCSI, SAS, 10 GbE and 1 Gb iSCSI) and 2 GB of read/write cache each provides support for up to 64 hosts. 8 Gb Fiber Channel, 6 Gb SAS, and 10 GbE and 1 Gb iSCSI technology means that the users will have fast, reliable, and affordable access to their data.

Comprehensive data protection in an easily administered SAN environment

Reduce risk of IT failure with dual active/active controllers, dual-ported drives, and redundant hardware components. For increased data protection the P2000 G3 MSA comes standard with 64 snapshot and Volume Copy software, giving space-efficient, copy-on-write snapshots and clones. Reduced risk from operator errors, resulting in less downtime and data loss, while increasing customer satisfaction. The P2000 G3 FC, FC/iSCSI Combo, SAS, or iSCSI controllers support data-in-place upgrades, protecting the user's investment in JBODs and drives and giving greater performance, functionality.