Hitachi AMS2100 043-100409-01.P Leaflet

For medium and large businesses, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 
2100 is an easy-to-use, scalable, cost-effective storage system for 
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 Exchange Server, VMware, databases and other business 

applications. It is also a top choice for tiered and standalone storage,  
consolidation, business continuity, data replication, backup and archiving.

Burgeoning data growth and complex stor-
age infrastructures are prevalent challenges 
facing most organizations today, along with 
the need for high availability, performance, 
scalability and data protection — usually all 
at once. Hitachi Data Systems understands 
these challenges and has developed an 
approach to match application and business 
requirements to storage attributes. Now, 
Hitachi Data Systems brings medium and 
large organizations these proven solutions 
in modular, cost-effective packaging: the 
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100.

Reduce Management, Facilities  
and Energy Costs

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Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller 
automatically reduces controller bottlenecks; 
it is ideal for VMware environments.

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Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software 
provides “virtual storage capacity” to 
eliminate application service interruptions, 
reduce costs and simplify administration.

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The Dense Expansion Tray option holds 
up to 48 SATA or 38 SAS disks in a 4U 
(176mm) high tray to reduce facility costs.

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The Power Savings feature reduces utility 
charges.

Simplified, Reliable, Integrated Storage

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Rely on 99.999 percent data availability.

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Minimize disruption and risk with no 
single point of failure and mirrored cache 
with battery backup.

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Improve administrative efficiencies 
with wizard-based installation and 
configuration.

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Centralize and manage multiple systems 
from a single pane of glass.

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Reduce time spent on configuration with 
Hitachi Data Systems solution-ready 
platforms, which are certified and tested 
with the leading business applications. 
Detailed technical guides assist in getting 
the best performance and highest scal-
ability possible.

Flexible, Scalable Business Growth

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Protect investments to meet the data 
storage growth requirements of any busi-
ness with the ability to scale capacity to 
313TB, performance to 400K IOPS and 
connectivity to 1024 virtual server ports.

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Intermix high performance SAS drives 
and cost optimized SATA drives in the 
same system for tiered storage solutions.

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Attach to Fibre Channel and iSCSI stor-
age networks for exceptional levels of 
storage consolidation.

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Expand as business grows with easy 
data-in-place upgrades.

Compliance and Data Protection

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RAID-6 ensures high availability and  
protection: any two drives can fail without 
the loss of any data.

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Hi-Track

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 Remote Monitoring system for 

24/7 diagnostics keeps potential issues 
from becoming problems.

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Within-system volume replication or incre-
mental copies enable frequent backups.

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Flexible sparing eliminates the need to 
copy back after a RAID group rebuild.

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Audit logging tracks all system changes.

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Hitachi Data Retention Utility software 
protects data from overwrites or erasures 
for long periods of time.

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