4-Port Shared Storage Module for multiple host shared storage and Multipath high availability option for MSA500 is ideal for remote offices requiring increased fault tolerance and flexible storage expansion.
Maximize your storage utilization by allowing up to 4 direct attached servers to share up to 2 TB of data on the MSA500
Deploying independent servers with its own internal storage may leave unused drive capacity in each server. By using the MSA500 as the shared storage component up to four servers can share the MSA500 and its drives. SSP is used to create logical volumes and each volume is assigned to a server. By being able to expand capacity online and also extend logical volumes online capacity can be added at any time. Migrating hard drives from the ProLiant serves to the MSA500 is simple with DtS technology
Share MSA500 with up to 4 servers
Greater external storage capacity utilization;
Use SSP to assign logical volumes for each server
Boot from external or internal hard drives
Maintains simplicity of Smart Array
Easily migrate to FC-SAN
2-node Shared Storage
4-node Shared Storage
Increase fault tolerance
Increase fault tolerance by adding dual I/O paths to the same logical volumes
Smart Array Multipath software delivers dual path functionality and supports failover capabilities for redundant host bus adapters (HBAs) in a server with redundant cabling to a MSA500. This fault-tolerance tool enhances availability of clustering and direct attached storage (DAS) solutions with up to two servers managing up to 2 TB of stored data. When an HBA failure occurs, the software moves the logical drives from the path of the failed HBA to the path of the redundant HBA located in the same server.
Multipath Cluster
Multipath Shared Storage
Increase availability by protecting against connectivity (HBA) failures and cable pull-outs.
Static LUN Balancing
Static Load (read-only) Balancing
Increase performance
Increase performance with Static LUN Balancing (for Windows) and Static (read only) Load Balancing (for Linux).
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