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AMS2100

Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family

The 2000 family eliminates bottlenecks caused by workload imbalances so you can get on to more important tasks.

The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage models AMS2100, AMS2300, and AMS2500 are ideal for the most demanding application requirements with ever changing workload requirements and delivers enterprise-class performance, capacity and functionality at a midrange price.

All of these models provide 99.999% data availability. They are also highly flexible with a choice of SAS or SATA II disk drives. With support for Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI and NAS, storage requirements can be consolidated onto a single platform.

Adaptable Modular Storage 2100

A cost effective option with a rich set of features in a model that scales to 120 disk drives. Ideal for medium and large businesses, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 is an easy-to-use, scalable, storage system for Microsoft® Exchange Server, VMware, databases and other business applications.

Benefits

Easy to set up and administer

  • Eliminates requirements to set preferred paths from hosts to storage
  • System self balances workloads across both controllers
  • “Single pane of glass” to integrate and manage multiple Hitachi systems
  • Simplified RAID group placement using SAS backplane architecture
  • Helpful documents and web portal

Unsurpassed Reliability and Data Availability

  • 99.999% data availability with no single point of failure
  • Nondisruptive microcode updates
  • Hot swappable major components
  • Dual-battery backup for cache
  • Flexible drive sparing with no copy back required after a RAID rebuild
  • In system and remote site data replication options
  • RAID-6 dual parity support for enhanced reliability when using large SATA and SAS drives

Cost-effective performance

  • Full-duplex, 3Gbps SAS drive interface that can simultaneously send and receive commands or data on the same link
  • 16 concurrent disk I/O paths provide up to 4800MB/s of total system bandwidth
  • Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller automatically balances loads to eliminate bottlenecks for outstanding performance

Tremendous scalability

  • Ability to add capacity, connectivity, and performance as needed
  • Concurrent support of large heterogeneous open systems environments with up to 512 virtual server ports and 2048 LUNs
  • Scale performance to 400,000 IOPS
  • Data-in-place upgrades from AMS2100 to the AMS2300 or the AMS2500
  • Mega LUNs, up to 60TB, enable set-it-and-forget-it provisioning

Highly Flexible Systems

  • Intermixed SAS and SATA drives can share the same tray to save cost
  • Dense Expansion Tray option holds up to 48 disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray
  • Multiprotocol support for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces
  • Combine with Hitachi High performance NAS for simultaneous block and file access

Platform for solution delivery

  • Ideal for changing workloads in a server virtualization environment
  • Technical guides to setup applications and systems for best performance and highest scalability possible

PDF AMS2100 spec sheet

    AMS2300

    Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family

    The 2000 family eliminates bottlenecks caused by workload imbalances so you can get on to more important tasks.

    The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage models AMS2100, AMS2300, and AMS2500 are ideal for the most demanding application requirements with ever changing workload requirements and delivers enterprise-class performance, capacity and functionality at a midrange price.

    All of these models provide 99.999% data availability. They are also highly flexible with a choice of SAS or SATA II disk drives. With support for Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI and NAS, storage requirements can be consolidated onto a single platform.

    Adaptable Modular Storage 2300

    The best combination of price and performance in a model that scales to 240 disk drives. Ideal for large businesses and enterprises, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 is a highly reliable, flexible and scalable storage system for Microsoft® Exchange Server, VMware, databases and other business applications.

    Benefits

    Easy to set up and administer

    • Eliminates requirements to set preferred paths from hosts to storage
    • System self balances workloads across both controllers
    • “Single pane of glass” to integrate and manage multiple Hitachi systems
    • Simplified RAID group placement using SAS backplane architecture
    • Helpful documents and web portal

    Unsurpassed Reliability and Data Availability

    • 99.999% data availability with no single point of failure
    • Nondisruptive microcode updates
    • Hot swappable major components
    • Dual-battery backup for cache
    • Flexible drive sparing with no copy back required after a RAID rebuild
    • In system and remote site data replication options
    • RAID-6 dual parity support for enhanced reliability when using large SATA and SAS drives

    Cost-effective performance

    • Full-duplex, 3Gbps SAS drive interface that can simultaneously send and receive commands or data on the same link
    • 16 concurrent disk I/O paths provide up to 4800MB/s of total system bandwidth
    • Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller automatically balances loads to eliminate bottlenecks for outstanding performance

    Tremendous scalability

    • Ability to add capacity, connectivity, and performance as needed
    • Concurrent support of large heterogeneous open systems environments with up to 1024 virtual server ports and 4096 LUNs
    • Scale performance to 400,000 IOPS
    • Data-in-place upgrades from AMS2300 to the AMS2500
    • Mega LUNs, up to 60TB, enable set-it-and-forget-it provisioning

    Highly Flexible Systems

    • Intermixed SAS and SATA drives can share the same tray to save cost
    • Dense Expansion Tray option holds up to 48 disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray
    • Multiprotocol support for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces
    • Combine with Hitachi High performance NAS for simultaneous block and file access

    Platform for solution delivery

    • Ideal for changing workloads in a server virtualization environment
    • Technical guides to setup applications and systems for best performance and highest scalability possible

    PDF AMS2300 spec sheet

      AMS2500

      Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family

      The 2000 family eliminates bottlenecks caused by workload imbalances so you can get on to more important tasks.

      The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage models AMS2100, AMS2300, and AMS2500 are ideal for the most demanding application requirements with ever changing workload requirements and delivers enterprise-class performance, capacity and functionality at a midrange price.

      All of these models provide 99.999% data availability. They are also highly flexible with a choice of SAS or SATA II disk drives. With support for Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI and NAS, storage requirements can be consolidated onto a single platform.

      Adaptable Modular Storage 2500

      The best performance available in a model that scales to 480 disk drives. Ideal for large and enterprise businesses, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 is a highly reliable, flexible and scalable storage system for Microsoft® Exchange Server, VMware, databases and other business applications. It also provides an optimal choice for tiered and standalone storage, consolidation, business continuity, data replication, backup and archiving.

      Benefits

      Easy to set up and administer

      • Eliminates requirements to set preferred paths from hosts to storage
      • System self balances workloads across both controllers
      • “Single pane of glass” to integrate and manage multiple Hitachi systems
      • Simplified RAID group placement using SAS backplane architecture
      • Helpful documents and web portal

      Unsurpassed Reliability and Data Availability

      • 99.999 percent data availability with no single point of failure
      • Nondisruptive microcode updates
      • Hot swappable major components
      • Dual-battery backup for cache
      • Flexible drive sparing with no copy back required after a RAID rebuild
      • In system and remote site data replication options
      • RAID-6 dual parity support for enhanced reliability when using large SATA and SAS drives

      Cost-effective performance

      • Full-duplex, 3Gbps SAS drive interface that can simultaneously send and receive commands or data on the same link
      • 32 concurrent disk I/O paths provide up to 9600MB/s of total system bandwidth
      • Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller automatically balances loads to eliminate bottlenecks for outstanding performance

      Tremendous scalability

      • Ability to add capacity, connectivity, and performance as needed
      • Concurrent support of large heterogeneous open systems environments with up to 2048 virtual server ports and 4096 LUNs
      • Scale performance to 900,000 IOPS
      • Mega LUNs, up to 60TB, enable set-it-and-forget-it provisioning

      Highly Flexible Systems

      • Intermixed SAS and SATA drives can share the same tray to save cost
      • Dense Expansion Tray option holds up to 48 disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray
      • Multiprotocol support for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces
      • Combine with Hitachi High performance NAS for simultaneous block and file access

      Platform for solution delivery

      • Ideal for changing workloads in a server virtualization environment
      • Technical guides to setup applications and systems for best performance and highest scalability possible

      PDF AMS2500 spec sheet

        Viglen Storage Array

        Based around dotHill technology, and offering the choice of low cost SATA, or high performance 15,000rpm SAS hard disks (or a mixture of the two technologies), the Viglen Storage Array has been designed to meet the growing needs of your organisation offering a simple upgrade path to expand your storage as you need to increase capacity.

        • 2U 12-Bay Storage Array
        • SATA or 15,000rpm SAS Drive options
        • Single or Dual Controller options
        • Choice of 512KB or 1GB cache per controller
        • Fibre Channel Connections
        • Built-in JAVA based management
        • Snapshot Data Management Services
        • Scalable using JBOD Expansion Enclosures
        • Support for 4 Snapshots per system as standard

        PDF Viglen Storage Array spec sheet

          Universal Storage Platform VM

          The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ VM blends enterprise-class functionality with a smaller footprint to meet the business needs of entry level enterprises and fast growing mid-sized organizations, while supporting distributed or departmental applications in large enterprises.

          Now, smaller organizations can enjoy the same benefits as large enterprises in deploying and managing their storage infrastructure in a way never possible before. The Universal Storage Platform VM, powered by the Hitachi Universal Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture, delivers proven and innovative controller-based virtualization, logical partitioning and universal replication for open systems and mainframe environments in a rack mounted storage services platform.

          The industry’s highest reliability and availability storage solution is backed by a set of storage and data services that include thin provisioning with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, application centric storage management and logical partitioning, as well as simplified, unified data replication across heterogeneous storage systems.

          An integral component of the Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions architecture, the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage.

          Key features
          • Virtualisation of storage from Hitachi and other vendors into one pool
          • Thin provisioning through Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning for nondisruptive volume expansion
          • Security services, business continuity services and content management services
          • Load balancing to improve application performance
          • Nondisruptive dynamic data migration from Hitachi and other storage systems

          PDF Universal Storage Platform VM spec sheet

            EonStor S16E-R1130

            3U iSCSI RAID Series high performance density and SAS scalability for IP SAN
            The S16E series are the world’s first iSCSI to SAS/SATA RAID arrays with four Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports on each controller. They can achieve best-in-class performance while benefiting from the affordability and straightforward management of IP SANs.

            Key features
            • Best-in-class performance
              Combining multiple host channels into a portal group increases the applicable bandwidth of each iSCSI session.
            • Flexibility with low cost of ownership
              The S16E is a perfect choice for budget-conscious companies, as it leverages any existing investment in an Ethernet network.
            • Easy installation and management
              The S16E series are intelligent storage arrays that enable rapid installation, simple management and seamless expansion.

            PDF EonStor S16E-R1130 spec sheet

              EonStor S16E-R1132

              2U iSCSI RAID Series High-performance or cost-effective choice for flexible IP SAN configuration
              The S12E series provides high-performance and cost-effective choices for users who would like to introduce IP SAN into their IT infrastructure. The single-controller S12E-G1133 not only enables necessary performance but can be scaled for abundant capacity, which makes it an ideal choice for capacitydemanding applications, such as near-line backup and surveillance.

              Key features
              • IP SAN benefits
                With iSCSI RAID, users can leverage their current investment on IP network to consolidate a cost-effecive SAN structure.
              • Flexibility with low cost of ownership
                The S12E is a perfect choice for budget-conscious companies, as it leverages any existing investment in an Ethernet network.
              • Easy installation, management and data protection
                The S12E series are intelligent storage arrays that enable rapid installation, simple management and seamless expansion.

              PDF EonStor S16E-R1132 spec sheet