Mindeasy Technology Know how » Hardware http://mindeasy.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:12:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=656 HP Storage Works MSA 2312i http://mindeasy.com/2010/06/hp-storage-works-msa-2312i/ http://mindeasy.com/2010/06/hp-storage-works-msa-2312i/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:59:35 +0000 admin http://mindeasy.com/?p=21 The MSA 2312 i is one of Hp’s iscsi storage appliances. This applianceis easy to setup and provides decent I/O’s for the price.  Currently I use this appliance for my corporate VMware system and it has not had any issues yet, running 20 or so moderately used VM’s.  The unit contains 2 controllers with a total of 4 iscsi ports that can be grouped together.  Sadly though my biggest con for this appliance is that the iscsi ports can not be teamed together to increase throughput.  They however can be grouped together to provide multipathing.  The mutipathing will be active/passive and can not be active/active.  The 2312i can be connected to up to 32 hosts and be directly connected to up to 4 more 2312i units, so the unit is expandable.  Overall this is a good entry to mid level storage appliance for light duty to moderate duty work.

Specifications

Performance- Each controller boosts an Athlon 2600+ processor, 300 MBps data Transfer rates and 1 GB memory.   

Raid Levels – The MSA 2312 i supports Raid 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50

Drives- Sata and SAS

Ports- 4 x GB iscsi ports

Screen shots of the GUI

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