Anv2013sw wrote: Thank you, Calvin. Since the P2000 G3 SAS is 'End Of Life', and MSA2000 G3 SAS seems the same product, or nearly, we conclude the MSA2000 G3 SAS is not a viable replacement. What is your opinion on HPE's policy regarding the lifespan of these products? We started shipping the MSA P2000 G3 (or MSA 2000 G3) in early 2010. I think it's reasonable that we don't sell it any more; it was replaced by the MSA 2040 about two years ago.

HP P2000 G3 Firmware Upgrade Posted on 18 November 2012 14 December 2012 by Craig The HP P2000 G3 is HP’s entry level SAN, it’s a robost piece of kit, as long as you keep the firmware updated.

There's a ton here but here are the highlights: • We announced the 'End of Life' (EOL) of the P2000 in Q3 2014. EOL is when we start the process of no longer selling something. • A year later, we had completely stopped selling all new P2000 systems.

• We continue to have field replacement units (FRUs) for support for 5 years after we have stopped selling new P2000. When products are discontinued, they are moved into 'support/sustaining' - meaning no new features are added. Only critical security or data integrity issues are considered in this phase. Hp C5683a Usb Device Driver.

Vendors have to draw a line to have a point where we move our R&D resources to new programs so that's the reason you see we don't make enhancements to old products. • If you're running an 5 year old P2000 G3 with spinning disks, you're going to start to have failures and maybe you want to move to new drives. • There's a new feature in the MSA 2040 called Advanced Data Services. Basically, this gives you wide striping across the MSA. This gives you a ton of features based on a new concept we call 'virtual pool'. If you move your drives, you'll get the classic vdisks your use too but can't move to the virutal pools without wiping your data and reloading. Here's a blog post I did when we recently had an enhancement to.

HPEStorageGuy (HPE) wrote: I'm a bit confused because I'm not deep into the older generation MSA naming but I'm pretty sure that a P2000 G3 and an MSA2000 G3 are the same product. We had some management that had tried to get rid of product names (like MSA, EVA, XP) and was using P2000 as a family name, dropping MSA. That didn't last long - and we went back to calling our products by the names our customers knew.Honestly I viewed that as 'HP Storage's Whiptail moment'.

Where a giant OEM did something so confusing, and stupid I just had to tilt my head and wonder who was responsible, and how long before the field rose up and called for his head on a pike:) Let me see if I can get out my name decoder ring. P2000 = MSA P4000 = LeftHand P5000 = Ibrix P6000 = EVA?

P7/8000 = 3PAR? P9000 and 10000 XP? I'm going to assume that Polyserve was long dead by this point. HPEStorageGuy (HPE) wrote: Scott Alan Miller wrote:What issues causes the P2000 to not support ESXi 6? A protocol issue?

VMware requires pretty extensive testing to be on their Hardware Compatability List. And of course if you find issues, you have to fix them to be on the HCL. While Kooler may suggest the general storage HCL is a few grand, and a 5 pack of heineken, I promise that there are actual requirements especially for VAAI (The SCSI T10 extensions were stuff can get weird as VMware has some proprietary ones and more importantly has performance requirements for some to pass).

The MD3000i I remember had problems with ESXi 5.0, and was never certified. Note the other thing you can do is virtualize it behind something that is supported (3PAR and XP support this from HP). I don't recommend this, as it doesn't solve the problem of old magnetic disks dying, and you technically have 2 system to manage. I normally only see people do this when they have a 500TB on the floor and don't want to do out of band migrations, or throw away something that can become a Tier 2/3 storage system.

Anv2013sw wrote: Thank you, Calvin. Since the P2000 G3 SAS is 'End Of Life', and MSA2000 G3 SAS seems the same product, or nearly, we conclude the MSA2000 G3 SAS is not a viable replacement. What is your opinion on HPE's policy regarding the lifespan of these products? Most lower end storage products have a 3 year sales run, with another 2-4 years of extended support, but this is really just part swaps not updates to keep relevant with the newer platforms. Midrange to enterprise storage platforms typically will get you a full 8 years (3 from end of say, a 5 year shelf life with a mid product refresh on specs). Note just because you don't have to refresh it as soon doesn't mean you don't still pay more than doing a forklift on the cheaper low end unit (This is really more of an opex/scale problem).

Eddie Bauer Car Seat 22 740 Hpn Manual Lymphatic Drainage more. Scott Alan Miller wrote: Texkonc wrote:I know that it is EOL, but is the firmware on the latest version? If you are using iSCSI, ESXi 6 shouldn't be any issue. That's what I was thinking. The iSCSI interface should make it work as both ends support iSCSI. I'm not sure how the P2000 would not work in that case.