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HPE Product Number: K2R80A
HPE EOL Part Number: C8R15A
Product Description: C8R15A: HPE MSA 2040 SAN Dual Controller SFF Storage
C8R15A is the EOL part number for the Energy Star K2R80A.
There is more info on page four of this HPE pdf:
http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04123144.pdf
General specs for the MSA 2040 series:
Maximum Array Capacity: 768 TB
Maximum Number of Drives:
- 199 SFF SAS/MDL SAS/SSD
- 96 LFF SAS/MDL SAS
Host Interface:
-16 Gb/8 Gb Fibre Channel with 4 Ports per controller
-1 GbE/10GbE iSCSI with 4 Ports per controller
-12Gb/sec SAS with 4 Ports per controller
Storage controller:
- 2 MSA 2040 SAN Controller
- 2 MSA 2040 SAS Controller
Enclosure Expansion Options:
- Up to seven HP MSA 2040 LFF Disk Enclosure
- Up to seven D2700 2.5-inch disk enclosure
- Or a combo of both
| Manufacturer | Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
| HPE Part Number | C8R15A |
| Brand Name | HP |
| Product Series | 2000 |
| Product Model | 2040 |
| Product Name | MSA 2040 Energy Star SAN Dual Controller SFF Storage |
| Product Type | SAN Array |
| Product UPC | 889296409878 |
| Maximum Hard Drives (HDD) | 24 |
| Installed Hard Drives (HDD) | 0 |
| Maximum Storage Capacity | 48 TB |
| Solid State Drives (SSD) Supported | 24 |
| Installed SSDs | 0 |
| Number of Controllers | 2 MSA 2040 SAN Controller |
| Cache Per Controller | 6GB |
| Controller Type | Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) |
| Ports per Controller | 4 |
| Full Interface Type | 16 Gb /8 Gb Fibre Channel/1 GbE /10 GbE iSCSI |
| Ethernet Technology | 10 Gigabit Ethernet |
| Number of Total Expansion Bays | 24 |
| Number of 2.5" Bays | 24 |
| Number of 3.5" Bays | 0 |
| SAN Interface | iSCSI / Fiber Channel |
| Form Factor | Rack-mountable |
| Rack Height | 2U |
| Height | 11" |
| Width | 26" |
| Depth | 29" |
The MSA 2040 is an entry level storage array meant to meet the needs of small to medium business.
Because it's entry level, the CPUs will hold back the raw speed of an SSD to a very minor extent, but will not affect platter type storage.
With that said, you can still expect about 85K IOPS in the real world, which is plenty fast for the SMB market.
If that's not enough for your needs, the HPE 3PAR 7200 All-Flash Starter kit (or the 7400 products) would be another option and Vertical Enterprise can help with either of those.
Install Tips:
- For iSCSI functionality, the firmware needs to be at GL101 or later.
- The maximum number of MSA 2040 LFF drive enclosures or D2700 SFF drive enclosures is 7 of each or a mix of both up to 7.
- Disk groups spanned across the enclosures support RAID levels 1, 5, 6, 10. Linear Vdisks support RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50.
- The maximum logical unit number or LUN is 140 TB
- The MSA 2040 and the D2700 disk enclosures can be hot-added to your current array
Compatible with:
- HP ProLiant DL
- HP ProLiant ML
- HP c-Class Blade Servers
- Integrity servers
- Intel Itanium architecture (IA64)
- Oracle, Microsoft and SAP environments
- VMware and Hyper-V
and more...
Let us know (1-231-492-0286) what you have and we'll let you know if it's compatible.

