New MSA2060 with 12 x 1.92TB SSD SAS 12G - RAID Level?

[Knaeckebrot]

Hi,

i am new to HP MSA and now have a brand new MSA2060, Dualcontroller, 12 x 1,92TB SSD Drives.

The MSA is connected with FC to two ESX Hosts (20 VMs)

I´m interested in the best recommended Layout with these components.. 

1.

MSA DP+ with 12(?) Drives (Is it right, that DP+ needs 12 Disks? Or could i go with 10 Disks, 1  Spare and 1 Cache Disk?

2.

Make two Volumes A &B with RAID 6. 6 Drives on each Volume. So i would buy one additional Drive for HotSpare. (I will have a "lost" of capacity of 4 drives...) but two volumes, for two controllers is.... recommended?

3.

1 Volume with RAID6 and 10 Drives. 1 Drive Hot Spare and 1 Drive Cache (Is a additional Drive Cache necesseary, when i only have SSD Drives?

Thanks for your comments (and sorry, for my bad English)

[Sahana_S]

Hi @Knaeckebrot ,

MSA DP+ is the best option even for SSD/ESXi. Hope you will find this video useful to know more about the new DP+ RAID.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wOn1LUv-bk

The virtual Storage technical guide has information about SSD endurance you can go through it.
Look at:
MSA Best Practices: https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00105260enw
MSA Virtual Storage Guide: https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00103247enw

Thanks and Regards,

Sahana S.

[ArunKKR]

Hi,

MSA DP+ is the recommended disk group configuration for an all flash array as per best practices guide.

Read cache is supported only when the array has a a mix of standard SAS hard drives and SSD hard drives.