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.
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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
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| Unsurpassed Reliability and Data Availability |
- 99.999 percent data availability with no single point of failure
- Non-disruptive 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
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| 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
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| 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
- Data-in-place upgrades from AMS2100 to the AMS2300 or the AMS2500
- Mega LUNs, up to 60TB, enable set-it-and-forget-it provisioning
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| Highly Flexible Systems |
- Intermixed SAS and SATA drives can share the same tray to save cost
- 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
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| 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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