Re: MSA1040 and SSD Drivers

Hi Luis,

MSA 1040 added support for SSD drives only from GL220  firmware version onwards.

Reference GL220 firmware release notes, SMU guide and quickspecs:

https://downloads.hpe.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p1158764188/v119515/764118-404_RN_MSA_GL220.html

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getdocument.aspx?docname=c04227623#

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=c04220794

MSA 1040 supports both linear vdisks and virtual pools from GL200 firmware version onwards..

Virtual pool/Performance tier requires separate license in MSA 1040.

SSD drives can be used in the MSA 1040 as normal linear vdisk with out any additional license. Only prequiste is firmware version. 

SSD disks could be used to create linear vdisks in MSA 1040 with controller firmware greater than GL220