• Performance – The MSA1000 and its components have been designed using the latest industry standard 2 Gb interconnects and Fibre Channel technology. Performance tests indicate a data transmission rate of over 30, 000 IOPS and bandwidth of up to 200 MB per second. (Single msa1000 Controller)
• Modular Chassis – The modular design of the MSA1000 cabinet supports up to fourteen 1" Universal hard drives, redundant controllers, 2 Gb embedded fabric switches or hubs, fans and power supplies in a 4U rackmount cabinet.
• Scalability – The MSA1000 is easily expanded. The MSA1000 cabinet scales to 2.0 TB using fourteen 146 GB, 1" HP Universal hard drives. By simply adding additional StorageWorks Drive Enclosures (two enclosures max), the MSA1000 scales to 6.0 TB using forty-two 146 GB 1" HP Universal hard drives - all within 10U of rack space.
• MSA SAN Switch 2/8 – The optional MSA SAN Switch 2/8, which can be installed within the MSA1000 cabinet, offers 2 Gb full fabric performance at an attractive price. A second MSA SAN Switch 2/8 can be installed for redundancy. There are seven pluggable ports available (four SFPs are included). The eight port is directed internally to the controller.
• MSA Hub 2/3 – The optional MSA Hub 2/3, which can be installed within the MSA1000, offers 2 Gb performance. With two ports accessible by the user, the MSA Hub 2/3 is the ideal interconnect for low-cost 2-node clustering or simply attaching two servers. A second MSA Hub 2/3 can be installed for redundancy. This hub ships with two SFPs included. Not yet available for Alpha server environments.
• Hot Plug Expansion and Replacement Support – The MSA1000 supports hot plug expansion and replacement of hard drives, redundant controllers, fabric switches or hubs for simple, fast installation and maintenance. Fans and power supplies are also hot plug replaceable.
• Advanced Data Guarding (RAID ADG) Fault Tolerance – This is the highest level of fault tolerance. It allocates two sets of parity data across drives and allows simultaneous write operations. This level of fault tolerance can withstand two simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss.

• Fabric Support for 1 Gb and 2 Gb Infrastructure – The MSA1000 supports both 1 Gb and 2 Gb Fibre Channel fabrics to ensure that your investment in 1 Gb infrastructure is protected.
• Optional embedded interconnects – Both the MSA SAN Switch 2/8 and the MSA Hub 2/3 requires no rack space as they are installed in the MSA1000's chassis. This not only saves valuable rack space (up to 2U saved) but also eliminates some of the cabling needed with external interconnects. The MSA SAN Switch 2/8 ships with 4 SFPs installed and the MSA Hub 2/3 ships with 2 SFPs.
• Universal Hard Drive – Since the MSA1000 supports HP Universal 1" Ultra2, Ultra3, and Ultra320 drives, your investment in SCSI technology is protected and cost is minimized as you add new drives. Sharing of a common universal drive form factor between your servers and storage can significantly reduce needs for hardware and spare inventory, and offer overall reduction in storage management and business costs.
• Pre-Failure Warranty – Drives installed in an MSA1000 and monitored under Insight Manager are supported by a Pre-Failure (replacement) Warranty. NOTE: Pre-Failure Warranty allows for the replacement of designated drives in an MSA1000 before they actually fail when using Insight Manger on ProLiant servers. NOTE: Some operating systems may not support all of these features.
• Multi-platform Intel-based Server Support – The MSA1000 offers Multi-platform Intel-based (x86) server support to allow a broad range of Intel-based servers to take advantage of the MSA1000's scalability, flexibility and connectivity. When used with a ProLiant server, the MSA1000 also provides unparalleled integration with Insight Manager, MSA1000 Support CD and Pre-Failure Warranty support.
• Alpha server support – The MSA1000 also supports Alpha-based servers operating in a Tru64 UNIX or OpenVMS environment. This support is enabled by replacing the controller firmware that comes standard with the MSA1000. The alternative firmware is shipped with every MSA1000 and is also downloadable for free on the MSA1000 Web site. Refer to the MSA1000 QuickSpec for Alpha servers for details.
• Integrated Configuration and Management Tools – The MSA1000 utilizes a standard, integrated set of management and utility software. These tools consistently lower the cost of ownership by reducing training and technical expertise necessary to install and maintain the MSA1000.

The MSA1000 comes with/supports the following configuration and management tools:
Configuration

• Array Configuration Utility (ACU). ACU is a browser-based disk configuration utility that lets you view, set up, and configure the array controllers and storage systems.
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
  

Management/Health

• Insight Manager
  
• Array Diagnostics Utility (ADU) This utility collects information about the array controllers in the system and generates a list of potential problems it has identified. It produces a report that can be saved to a diskette and analyzed by support technicians to aid in problem resolution.

ACU/ADU Bootable Utility

• The MSA1000 Support Software CD is a bootable media that enables a server to boot into a Linux shell and launch the ACU or the ADU, allowing the user to configure the MSA1000 storage or generate a diagnostic report without requiring a pre-installed operating system or drivers.
  

• Multiple 2-node ProLiant Clusters Sharing one MSA1000
  
• Redundant controller support (Active/Active 1Q03)
  
• Fabric, Private Loop & Public Loop Support
  
• Auto Negotiated F, FL & L Port Login
  
• RAID 0, 1, 1 0, 5 and ADG
  
• 2Gb/1Gb Frequency Agile
  
• Primary & Secondary Inter-Controller Link (ICL)
  
• Host based configuration via ACU
  
• Remote configuration and monitoring via ACU XE
  (offline and remote) & IM XE
  

• Selective Storage Presentation: allows multiple hosts to access a single MSA1000 storage system. Host access can be defined all the way down to a logical volume level.
  
• Online RAID Level Migration: allows for online post-configuration change to RAID level without destroying data or volume information.
  
• Online Capacity Expansion: lets you add storage to an operational MSA1000-reducing expensive server downtime.
  
• Global Online Spare: reduces the risk of data loss by facilitating automatic rebuilds after a drive failure.
  

Several fault tolerant configurations which keep data available and servers running while drives are being replaced are supported including:

• Advanced Data Guarding (RAID ADG): Allocates the equivalenct of two parity drives across multiple drives and allows simultaneous write operations.
  
• Distributed Data Guarding (RAID 5): Allocates parity data across multiple drives and allows simultaneous write operations.
  
• Drive Mirroring (RAID 1, (1+0 Striped Mirroring): Allocates half of the drive array to data and the other half to mirrored data, providing two copies of every file.
  

Minimizes downtime, reconstructs data, and facilitates a quick recovery from drive failure:

• Online Spares: If a failure occurs, recovery begins with an online spare and data is reconstructed automatically. Multiple online spares can be assigned per array and used across multiple arrays. It is also possible to assign different online spares across different arrays.
  
• Array Accelerator: Onboard, battery-backed cache memory protects data in the event of a power failure. In the unlikely event of a controller failure, the battery-backed cache will save critical user data for up to three days.
  

MSA Fibre Channel I/O Module

• eight 2 Gb ports: 1 to controller, 7 user accessible
  
• product ships with 4 SFPs installed
  
• 2 more ports plus full cascade ability (previous model had 1 "hop" restriction)
  
• feature set common with SAN Switch product line (not -EL models)
  
• no E-port restriction, accepts all optional software
  
• interoperates with external SAN Switch 2 Gb switches
  
• configuration and management methodology common with SAN Switch product line, same methods as installed base of 30,000+ HP SAN Switches
  NOTE: The MSA SAN Switch 2/8 can be cascaded to a like switch in another MSA1000 or to any external HP fabric switch in the "Infrastructure" family. For details please see the MSA1000 Compatibility Matrix available at: http://www.hp.com/go/msa1000.
  

• Provides a graphical view of HP drive array configurations
  
• Easy to use Wizards for configuration
  
• ACU supports on-line configuration
  
• Web Based ACU-XE supports On-Line, Remote Web Based and Off-line configuration
  
• Runs online on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Microsoft Windows 2000

Selective Storage Presentation (SSP)

• Built-in to MSA1000 Controller firmware and controlled via ACU
  
• Allows setting of access rights to the MSA1000 storage by hosts
  
• Access control can be set up to a logical volume level using the Array Controller Utility

• Powerful storage, server and server option management tool
  
• Monitor storage from a remote central location
  
• Browser based Insight Manager 7 provides full access from anywhere on the Intranet, eliminating the need for a dedicated Insight Manager management console
  

• Support for Windows Server 2003 8-Node Cluster
  Virtualization – Allows companies to respond quickly to rapidly changing storage capacity requirements. With storage virtualization, multiple storage arrays can be consolidated into a pool of disk space for individual or clustered systems to use. Multiple virtual disks, up to 2 terabyte in size, can be created from a pool for users and their applications. System administrators can tailor disk space to specific requirements. Existing storage units with production data can be imported into a pool, the data partition being preserved as a virtual disk and unused capacity added to the pool.
• Online volume growth – Enables easy, non-disruptive growth for Windows with zero downtime. Online Volume Growth allows a system administrator to grow an existing volume on an OpenView Virtual Replicator virtual disk and also a Windows basic disk. The system will remain online, and the data on the volume will remain intact.
• Snapshots – Instant, point-in-time snapshots for backup, online restore, testing or data mining. Enable the instant creation of multipurpose virtual replicas of production data without the requirement of a physical copy Snapshots function identically to ordinary physical disks, with both read and write capability. Whenever a quick copy of production data is needed, snapshots can be used with minimal disruption to running applications. For example, the snapshot can be the source for backup using standard backup tools. Snapshots can remain online for restore operations, testing, and data mining.
• Management – Simplifies management tasks through easy-to-use interfaces using Microsoft Management Console or a command line. Interactive wizards are available to guide the administrator through all management tasks and create automatic schedules of operations for investment protection and to reduce staff retraining.
• Fully cluster-aware
  Command line interface for scripting
• Scheduling wizards remove the guesswork from repetitive operations
• Please refer to the Optional Software section of this document or visit http://www.hp.com/ for additional details.

StorageWorks Secure Path for Windows Workgroups is a family of high availability multi-pathing software products providing continuous data access from HP's RAID Array to host servers running the Windows 2000 and Windows NT.
Redundant hardware, advanced RAID technology and Secure Path's automated failover capability are used to enhance fault tolerance and availability. Secure Path effectively eliminates controllers, disk drives, interconnect hardware and host bus adapters as single points of failure in the storage subsystem.

• Maintains connections to storage
  
• Monitors I/O paths and alerts on significant events
  
• Assists in load balancing

• Stand Alone Configurations
  
• Cluster configurations
  
• SAN configurations

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