Hitachi AMS2300 Rack Mount System, 2.25TB SAS Storage, 2x 8GB FC Controller

Easy to Set up and Administer

• Eliminates requirements to set preferred paths from hosts to storage
• Self balances workloads across both controllers
• Integrates and manages multiple Hitachi systems under a single “pane of glass”
• Simplifies RAID group placement using SAS backplane architecture
• Includes helpful documents and web portal

Unsurpassed Reliability and Data Availability

• 99.999% 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 3Gb/sec 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 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 2,048 virtual server ports and 4,096 LUNs
• Scale performance to 400,000 IOPS
• Data-in-place upgrades from AMS 2300 to AMS 2500
• 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 high performance Hitachi NAS for simultaneous block and file access

System and Data Security

• Role based access control
• Active Directory integration
• Data-at-rest encryption
• Tamperproof data
• Encrypted management communications
• Audit trail of system changes
• Common Criteria certification

Platform for Solution Delivery

• Ideal for changing workloads in a server virtualization environment
• Technical guides to set up applications and systems for best performance and highest scalability possible