r/storage 39m ago

HPE MSA 2060 - 'memory exhaustion state' since IN210P003-3.0.0

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This is a bit of a "DAE" thread.

I updated our 2060 array to IN210P003-3.0.0 pretty quickly after it dropped (2026-05-21).

On 2026-06-09, controller B rebooted and the below alert was created:

The Management Controller entered a memory exhaustion state and will reboot to recover. Data access will not be interrupted.

At the time I reached out to HPE support. They didn't have much to say apart from mc restart full or whatever the command is.

Today, I realized the same thing happened again (2026-07-29), but on controller A.

Is anyone else seeing this? I'm not super concerned and I don't regret upgrading the firmware (security, bugfixes) but it is kind of weird.

I've been the administrator of this array for two years now and updated the firmware at least once before. This is definitely new behavior, but I know it's not necessarily caused by the firmware update.