ENERGY STAR certified HPE MSA 2040 is a high-performance storage array designed for entry-level Hewlett Packard Enterprise customers desiring 8Gb/16Gb Fibre Channel, 1GbE/10GbE iSCSI, or 12Gb SAS connectivity with 4 host ports per controller. The MSA 2040 Storage array provides an excellent value for customers needing performance balanced with price to support initiatives such as consolidation and virtualization.

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Capacity	120 TB (single LFF array-head -using 12 x 10TB LFF SAS MDL drives) 800 TB (by adding 7 LFF Disk Enclosures behind LFF Array & using 10TB LFF SAS MDL drives)
Pool Capacity	GL200: 169 TB (154 TiB) GL210: 219 TB (200 TiB) GL220: 329 TB (300 TiB) GL220 with Large Pool Support: 562 TB (512 TiB)
Cache	6 GB per controller
Total LUNs	512 Maximum LUN size: 140TB (128TiB)
Host Interconnect	MSA 2040 SAN controller will support up to four connections with options of 16Gb, 8Gb FC and 10GbE,
Maximum Drives	96 LFF
Maximum host supported	64 in v2 UI 512 in v3 UI