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Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family
Highly Reliable, Cost Effective Modular Storage for Medium and Large Businesses, and Enterprise Organizations
Highly Reliable, Cost Effective Modular Storage for Medium and Large Businesses, and Enterprise Organizations
The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family is the only midrange storage product with symmetric active-active controllers that provide integrated, automated hardware-based front-to-back-end I/O load balancing. Let your storage system eliminate bottlenecks caused by workload imbalances so you can get on to more important tasks.
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.
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.
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.
Easy to Setup and Administer
Eliminates requirements to set preferred paths from hosts to storage
System self balances workloads across both controllers
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
Cost Effective Performance
16-32 concurrent disk I/O paths provide up to 4800MB/s of total system bandwidth
Full-duplex, 3Gbps SAS drive interface that can simultaneously send and receive commands or data on the same link
Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller automatically balances loads to eliminate bottlenecks for outstanding performance
Scalability
Ability to add capacity, connectivity, and performance as needed
Data-in-place upgrades from AMS 2100 to the AMS 2300 or the AMS 2500
Mega LUNS, up to 60 TB, enable set-it-and-forget-it-provisioning
Highly Flexible Systems
Intermixed SAS and SATA drives can share the same tray to save cost
Multiprotocol support for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces
Tech Specs
| Scalability | |
Active/Active + Active / Passive |
Yes |
Traffic Cluster Size |
2 Active Units |
Application Cluster size |
4, 12, or Unlimited (options) |
Load Balancing |
|
Supported Protocols |
Yes |
Layer‐7 load balancing |
Yes |
Session Persistence |
Yes |
SSL decryption and encryption |
Yes |
Application Health Monitoring |
Yes |
Traffic Management |
|
Traffic Management rules: |
RuleBuilder™ rules |
Rate Shaping |
No |
XML processing |
No |
SOAP Control API |
No |
Content Caching |
No |
Bandwidth Management |
No |
Service Level Monitoring |
No |