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. 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 a Services Oriented Storage approach to match application and business requirements to storage attributes. Now, Hitachi Data Systems brings large and enterprise customers these proven solutions in modular, cost effective packaging — the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500. Business Benefits Cost Effective Performance and Capacity Consolidate multiple storage systems into one; supports iSCSI, Fibre Channel and NAS on the same system. Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller delivers outstanding performance and nondisruptive operations; it is ideal for VMware environments. Reduce utility charges with Power Savings feature.
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 and automate data replication — all from a single pane of glass. Reduce time spent on configuration with Hitachi Data Systems solution-ready platforms that 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 472TB, performance to 900K IOPS and connectivity to 2048 virtual server ports. Expand as business grows with easy data-in-place upgrades.
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 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
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
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
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
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