C8R11A HPE MSA 2040 SFF DC-Power Chassis

C8R11A is the HPE MSA 2040 SFF DC-power chassis, also called the MSA 2040 Carrier-Grade Chassis: a controller-less 6Gb chassis with twenty-four small form factor drive bays, delivered with two DC-power power supplies. The 500 watt supply operates over -40VDC to -75VDC. The chassis is NEBS certified.

Carrier-grade MSA 2040 builds accept one or two controllers, either the C8R09A MSA 2040 SAN controller or the C8S53A MSA 2040 SAS controller. The SAN controller supports 8Gb FC, 16Gb FC, 1GbE iSCSI or 10GbE iSCSI SFPs, and the SAS controller has four mini-SAS HD ports for 6Gb and 12Gb host connections.

Expansion uses the BV921C MSA dual I/O DC-power carrier-grade SFF drive enclosure, which has 24 drive bays, dual DC supplies and is supplied only with carrier-grade arrays. A NEBS compliant MSA 2040 handles up to 7 compliant disk enclosures, for a maximum of 192 SFF drives. With specific Storage SFF SAS drives the solution is certified to GR-63 and GR-1089 and rated Seismic Zone 4 when mounted in the HPE Seismic Rack, AH335A.

SFF drive options for MSA 2040 arrays include the J9F44A 300GB 10K drive, the J9F46A and J9F48A, and the N9X95A 400GB mixed use SSD. The chassis weighs 30.7 lbs without controllers. The LFF DC-power chassis is the C8R13A. More array parts are in HPE storage systems.