| Technical specifications | HPE MSA2042 |
| Drive description | Up to 199 SFF SSD/SAS/MDL SAS or 96 LFF SSD/SAS/MDL SAS maximum including |
| base array and expansion, depending on model. SEDs are not supported on the MSA2042 | |
| Capacity | Supported 637 TB SFF / 768 TB LFF maximum raw capacity |
| Storage expansion options | HPE MSA 2040 3.5-inch LFF disk enclosure or D2700 2.5-inch SFF disk enclosure |
| MSA 2042 supports up to 7 SFF or LFF Disk Enclosures of any combination | |
| Storage host interface: | 8 Gb/16 Gb Fibre Channel, 1 GbE/10 GbE iSCSI, 6 Gb/12 Gb SAS |
| SAN backup support | Yes |
| Software features, standard | Performance tiering, archive tiering, 512 snapshots, remote replication, thin provisioning, |
| space reclamation, volume copy, virtual tier affinity (QoS) | |
| Compatible operating systems | Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 Microsoft Windows® 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Hyper-V |
| HP-UX Red Hat® Linux® SUSE Linux Solaris VMware® ESXi™ 5.x | |
| VMware ESXi 6.x MAC OSX Detailed information available at | |
| Clustering support | Windows, Linux, HP-UX |
| Form factor | 2U base array, 2U LFF or SFF disk enclosures |
| Warranty (parts-labor-onsite) | 3-0-0, includes 3 years 9x5 telephone support, and rights to new versions of firmware |
