Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family
Highly Reliable, Cost Effective Modular Storage for Medium and Large Businesses.
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
“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
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
Combine with Hitachi High performance NAS for simultaneous block and file access
Tech Specs
AMS 2100
AMS 2300
AMS 2300
Max. Raw Capacity:
118 TB
236 TB
472 TB
Max. Cache:
8 GB
16 GB
32 GB
Min. Cache:
4 GB
8 GB
16 GB
Max. Disk Drives Count:
120
240
480
Min. Disk Drives Count:
4
4
4
Internal Disk Drives:
146GB SAS 15K
300GB SAS 15K
400GB SAS 10K
500GB SATA 7K
1TB SATA 7K
146GB SAS 15K
300GB SAS 15K
400GB SAS 10K
450GB SAS 15K
500GB SATA 7K
1TB SATA
7K
146GB SAS 15K
300GB SAS 15K
400GB SAS 10K
450GB SAS 15K
500GB SATA 7K
1TB SATA
7K
RAID Support:
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1+0
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1+0
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1+0
RAID 5
RAID 6
Host Connections:
1Gb FC
2Gb FC
4Gb FC
1Gb Ethernet
iSCSI
1Gb FC
2Gb FC
4Gb FC
1Gb Ethernet
iSCSI
1Gb FC
2Gb FC
4Gb FC
1Gb Ethernet
iSCSI
Dual Controllers:
Yes
Yes
Yes
OS Support:
AIX,
HP-UX,
Linux,
Mac OS X,
Netware,
OpenVMS,
Sun Solaris,
Tru64,
VMWare,
Windows 2000,
Windows Server 2003
AIX,
HP-UX,
Linux,
Mac OS X,
Netware,
OpenVMS,
Sun Solaris,
Tru64,
VMWare,
Windows 2000,
Windows Server 2003
AIX,
HP-UX,
Linux,
Mac OS X,
Netware,
OpenVMS,
Sun Solaris,
Tru64,
VMWare,
Windows 2000,
Windows Server 2003