HPE MSA Primary Use Case
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JobyThomas
Manager, Information Technology at a construction company with 201-500 employees
I am using HPE MSA storage solutions for my organization's data storage needs. I have offices with different requirements, and this product is used across our various setups.
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Kirihettige Anton Asiri Prasad
Systems Engineer at Thakral One (Pvt) Ltd
They are using HPE MSA for file storage and running VMs.
View full review »We use HPE MSA for our virtualization environment.
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June 2025

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Jacques Petit
Administrative Assistant at EUIPO - European Union Intellectual Property Office
We use HPE MSA as storage for the VMware servers, and we will try to use Proxmox server later on, but currently, we use VMware.
View full review »I have been using HPE MSA for storage area network purposes.
View full review »We use the solution for data storage.
View full review »Mostly, customers in Pakistan use MSA for small to medium business solutions. It's easy to use and doesn't require significant technical expertise to configure or use.
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Sreten Stijepovic
Owner at INTUIS COMPUTERS
I use HPE StorageWorks MSA for my data center needs. I combine the storage with server services and software to create a centralized environment. By connecting everything in the network and setting up a virtual environment for servers, I manage data storage and server resources for improved performance and centralization.
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RaghuNarayanan Mohan
Server Engineer at Telephony
We suggest this solution for multiple infrastructures, such as hotels, hospitals, and government projects, are using the solution. For small businesses and other organizations that require a small infrastructure or less scalability, we use any storage solution that meets their needs. However, for organizations that require high scalability and storage capacity, the MSA is the most suitable solution.
View full review »We use HPE StorageWorks MSA for fiber-based storage. It is used for production servers like file servers and SQL databases as email exchange, email before on-premise. The solution is also used as an active directory for virtual machines.
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Asanka Karunanayake
Head of cloud service. at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
We are using virtualization and we use this storage for hosting workloads. We have our own workloads, as well as some for our customers.
We use StorageWorks for storage.
View full review »Our company uses the solution for NAS and SAN storage. We have 30 users who access storage daily.
We do not plan to increase usage in the short term but plan to do a technology refresh in a few years.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We use HPE StorageWorks MSA as our central storage for our VMware clusters.
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Mohammad Salman
Manager of Customer Services with 1,001-5,000 employees
We primarily use this solution for our CCTV cameras and systems.
View full review »When we purchased this solution, we work looking to go from a standalone VMware server to a full-fledged host. We have two hosts and we have the SAN, and so it was the most cost-effective at the time for us, as beginners with SAN technology.
We are currently looking to replace this with a newer product because of its age.
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Hsiang-Ping Lu
Senior System Engineer at Feng Chia University
We use HPE StorageWorks MSA for normal servers and as a storage utility.
View full review »I use this solution for a target backup object profile for a snapshot of my VMDK.
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HPE MSA
June 2025

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860,632 professionals have used our research since 2012.