Hitachi AMS 2500

For medium and large businesses, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 is an easy-to-use, scalable, cost-effective storage system for Microsoft® Exchange Server, VMware, databases and other business applications. It is also a top choice for tiered and standalone storage, consolidation, business continuity, data replication, backup and archiving.

Resilient, Enterprise Class Storage at a Modular Price Burgeoning data growth and complex storage infrastructures are prevalent challenges facing most organizations today, along with the need for high availability, performance, scalability and data protection — usually all at once. Hitachi Data Systems understands these challenges and has developed an approach to match application and business requirements to  storage attributes. Now, Hitachi Data Systems brings medium and large organizations these proven solutions in modular, cost-effective packaging: the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500.

Business Benefits

• Reduce Management, Facilities and Energy Costs
• Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller automatically reduces controller bottlenecks; it is ideal for VMware environments.
• Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software provides “virtual storage capacity” to eliminate application service interruptions, reduce costs and simplify administration.
• The Dense Expansion Tray option holds up to 48 SATA or 38 SAS disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray to reduce facility costs.
• The Power Savings feature reduces utility charges.

Simplified, Reliable, Integrated Storage

• Rely on 99.999 percent data availability.
• Minimize disruption and risk with no single point of failure and mirrored cache with battery backup.
• Improve administrative efficiencies with wizard-based installation and configuration.
• Centralize and manage multiple systems from a single pane of glass.
• Reduce time spent on configuration with Hitachi Data Systems solution-ready platforms, which are certified and tested with the leading business applications.
• Detailed technical guides assist in getting the best performance and highest scalability possible.

Flexible, Scalable Business Growth

• Protect investments to meet the data storage growth requirements of any business with the ability to scale capacity to 313TB, performance to 400K IOPS and connectivity to 1024 virtual server ports.
• Intermix high performance SAS drives and cost optimized SATA drives in the same system for tiered storage solutions.
• Attach to Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage networks for exceptional levels of storage consolidation.
• Expand as business grows with easy data-in-place upgrades.

Compliance and Data Protection

• RAID-6 ensures high availability and protection: any two drives can fail without the loss of any data.
• Hi-Track® Remote Monitoring system for 24/7 diagnostics keeps potential issues from becoming problems.
• Within-system volume replication or incremental copies enable frequent backups.
• Flexible sparing eliminates the need to copy back after a RAID group rebuild.
• Audit logging tracks all system changes.
• Hitachi Data Retention Utility software protects data from overwrites or erasures for long periods of time.