Hitachi 2300 Adaptable Modular Storage
Hitachi Updated: 2009-03-29 RSSThe 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
* 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
Adaptable Modular Storage and Workgroup Modular Storage Architecture Guide
Data Sheet
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