Products : 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.
Benefits
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 2048 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 SATA or 38 SAS 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
