HPE StorageWorks MSA Scalability

Saleem Ullah-Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - IT Business Solutions at Kuwait Automotive Imports Company

More than 300 users are using this solution every day.

I rate the solution’s scalability a five out of ten.

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SS
Owner at INTUIS COMPUTERS

I find HPE StorageWorks MSA's scalability somewhat limited. While it is expensive, the main drawback is that the configuration, especially for connections, is fixed. Once set, you can't change or expand certain aspects like network ports, CPU, and memory. While you can expand storage capacity, it lacks flexibility in modifying the initial setup, making it less adaptable to changing needs. I would recommend HPE StorageWorks MSA for small to medium-sized enterprises. It might be less suitable for larger companies with more extensive storage needs, where more advanced solutions could be necessary.

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CP
Sr. Infra. Support Egineer / Tech .Consultant at CANAR OFFICE SYSTEMS

There are models that are scalable. So you just have to choose which model you are going to recommend to customers based on the sizing. More than 20 of our customers are using HPE StorageWorks MSA.

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RM
Server Engineer at Telephony

It is a scalable solution. I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. We approximately have more than 35 clients.

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it_user482805 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

They can scale; I don't think they're meant to, but you can add additional shelves and things, which we've done. That's fairly easy to do.

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it_user680220 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Lead at Raytheon

It is definitely scalable. Like I was saying a little earlier, we use them in all our areas because we know that they're scalable. We can use them to scale up our program area if the area grows.

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GH
Manager, Information Technology Team at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability is decent. It's possible to add additional bays for the drives, but I don't know how many you can add. 

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it_user476793 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT - Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

They're scalable for offsite and we love them.

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AK
Head of Hosting & LAN Services at Lanka Communication Services (Pvt) Ltd.

The scalability is very good. This environment is part of our infrastructure. We are an internet service provider (ISP), so we have our own infrastructure hosted. This includes our link monitoring systems and the authentication service center. We also host a large number of customer workloads on virtual machines, which are all running on this system.

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RO
General Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution is scalable and you can add additional bays. At some stage, you will need additional TCs.

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MS
Manager of Customer Services with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've never tested that scalability. We've never tried to upgrade the service or expand it. Therefore, it wouldn't be possible to comment on its capabilities or our experiences.

We have different IP cameras. There are around 450. In terms of operators, we have just three.

We do plan to continue to use the solution, at least for the next two years or so.

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SK
IT MGR at a retailer with 51-200 employees

We have two of these units and we replicate between them with our sister company.

When we purchased it, we had some open drive bays. If we had needed to expand then we could have, but we never had the need to do so.

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DG
Senior System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

None. Running 7k drives and 10K drives with SSD caching.

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it_user251868 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

For our environment, you can scale several times and that’s exactly what we need. You can’t go beyond four servers for the SaaS connected version, but for us that’s what we needed exactly.

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MD
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I have found the solution to be scalable.

We have approximately 20 customers using this solution.

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AB
Computer and Network Engineer at Jooya Informatics Group

It's designed for small businesses, not for a large enterprise. The enclosures are enough for this amount of storage. With the sixth generation, we can have nine enclosures and add them to a base chassis.

The scalability could be improved, but it's enough for a small business. If you have a large business, you should opt for HPE Primera or Nimble.

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