Your storage challenges grow more from the growth of your data than from the growth of your company. We understand that. No matter how big your business is, on these pages you will find enterprise storage capabilities that we’ve scaled to your needs. These scalable storage systems can manage many of your extremely complex tasks and give you operational efficiencies and performance you won’t find anywhere else in a midrange system.

What did we build into this family? We included dynamic provisioning to improve your utilization rates and simplify your storage management. It reduces your facilities and energy costs, too. We invented symmetrical active-active controllers to give you I/O balancing that is built into the hardware and is fully automated. It will reconfigure your storage for you when an application spikes or changes. How about 99.999% data availability? These systems will even update the microcode while your data remains online.

 

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000

The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage models 2100, 2300, and 2500 are extremely scalable and reliable systems. Their SAS based drive architecture delivers industry leading price/performance for midrange systems. The 2000 family is the only midrange storage product line with symmetric active-active controllers that automatically perform many complex and time consuming tasks that administrator routinely face.

 

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100

 

The smallest midrange system is crammed full of innovation. Look into this option if your data needs are similar to a typical medium or large business. You’ll be glad to know that the 2100 can scale up when you’re ready.

 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.

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

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
• Flash disk option for high performance application requirements
• 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

 

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300

 

 

The next system gives you a performance step that’s more than it’s price step – that’s value for you. If your data management is similar to large businesses and enterprises, then this is the system to evaluate. 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

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

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
• Flash disk option for high performance application requirements
• 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

 

Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500

This is the top of the line with the best capability you’ll find in a midrange system. If you have very complex data issues you’ll want to examine just how well the 2500 supports the advanced storage management strategies you’re using. 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 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
• Flash disk option for high performance application requirements
• Dense Expansion Tray option holds up to 48 disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray
• Available with a -48V DC power supply that is also NEBS-3 compliant for Telcos and DC powered datacenters
• 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