HPE MSA 2060 Storage review: VerdictĪlthough we tested HPE’s MSA 2052 Storage over 10GbE iSCSI, we can still see that the Gen FC model and its uprated hardware and larger cache delivers significant performance improvements across the board. Cumulative IOPS were equally good - Iometer reported 640,000 and 178,500 IOPS for sequential reads and writes, with random operations returning 398,500 and 111,000 IOPS.
Sequential read and write performance were both measured at a steady 12.3Gbits/sec while random rates settled at an equally speedy 12Gbits/sec and 7.4Gbits/sec.Īssigning a 1TB volume from Pool B to our second server saw cumulative sequential read and write speeds for both servers ramp up to 24.6Gbits/sec with random rates increasing to 19.1Gbits/sec and 14.8Gbits/sec. With one server connected across both controllers and assigned a 1TB volume from Pool A, we started Iometer and watched all activity shift over to the SSD performance tier in around 5 minutes. If you connect a host to each controller, you don’t get a doubling in performance, as the link to the controller that doesn’t own the pool is designated as non-optimised and reserved for automatic failover. When creating MPIO links, bear in mind that the array uses an asymmetric active/active mode. Over on the MSA 2060, we created two pools, each with a dual SSD mirrored performance tier and a RAID5 standard tier made up of five 10K SAS3 HDDs.
REMOTESNAP MAC WINDOWS
HPE MSA 2060 Storage review: Performanceįor performance testing, we used Dell and HPE dual-socket Xeon Scalable servers running Windows Server 2019 and equipped with quad-port 16Gbps FC ATTO Celerity HBAs. Snapshots are created by selecting the data protection option for a volume and running them on-demand, or applying a schedule where they can be repeated as often as every minute. We simply chose the controller to determine the pool they would go in, provided a name, entered a size in MB, GB or TB and assigned them to specific host data ports. If you don’t have the ADSS license, you can still use SSDs to create a read cache and assign it to a pool.Ĭreating virtual volumes is a cinch.
REMOTESNAP MAC LICENSE
Our review system had the ADSS license applied so when we assigned a dual SSD mirror to a pool, it was automatically placed in a performance tier while our SAS3 HDD arrays went into a standard tier. Each contains multiple disk groups which are created by selecting disk types, RAID levels and the controller you want to assign them to. The controllers support one storage pool apiece which can be up to 1PB in capacity. On first contact with the new SMU v4 web interface, it kicked off with a wizard that guided us through system setup, securing management access, creating storage pools, provisioning virtual volumes and setting data port host assignments.
When we reviewed the MSA 2052 we thought installation was easy enough, but HPE has simplified it even further.
Included with the 2062, it’s worth having as it also increases the number of volume snapshots from 64 to 512 and activates the remote snap service for asynchronous replication to remote MSA arrays.
REMOTESNAP MAC ARCHIVE
The standard and archive tiers are included by default on the MSA 2060, but the performance tier is optional and requires HPE’s MSA Advanced Data Services Suite (ADSS) license applied.
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