HPE MSA 2040 SAN

[jaminben]

Hi,

 

We have an HPE MSA 2040 which is around 5 years old and we'd like to reconfigure it to work more like a NAS than a SAN and use it for file storage (virtual .vhdx) and backups only (it currently runs a handful of Hyper-V's).

 

The current cluster is set up with the following hardware:

 

Model: HPE MSA 2040

No. Controllers: 2

No. Disks: 20

Disk Type: 20 x 600GB 6GB DP 10K

 

No. Cluster Servers: 4

Model: Proliant DL360p G8

CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 @ 2.6 GHz (8 cores each)

2 x 146GB 15k SAS

RAM: 96GB

 

Ideally, we'd like to dismantle the cluster and run all the Proliant DL360p G8's individually and have the SAN hooked into the network like a NAS.

 

Anyone have any idea if this is possible?

[Sibrows]

It should be the MSA 2040, if I remember rightly, is just connecting over iSCSI which would do exactly what you're after.

[jaminben]

If we wanted to remove two of the clustered servers do we simply evict them?