AMS2100

Dependable, modular storage for smart value For small and mid-sized businesses, Acer Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 is an

easy-to-use, scalable, cost-effective storage system for Microsoft® Exchange Server,

VMware®, databases, and other business applications. It is also a top choice for tiered or

standalone storage, consolidation, business continuity, data replication, backup and

archiving.

Reduced management, facilities and energy costs � Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller automatically reduces controller bottlenecks; it is ideal for VMware

environments.

� Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software provides "virtual storage capacity" to eliminate application service interruptions,

reduce costs and simplify administration.

Simplified, reliable, and integrated storage

� Rely on 99.999% data availability.

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

� Improve administrative efficiencies with wizard-based installation and configuration.

� Centralize and manage multiple systems for greater efficiencies and automate data replication.

� Reduce time spent on configuration with Hitachi Data Systems solution-ready platforms that are certified and tested

with the leading business applications. Detailed technical guides assist in getting the best performance and highest

scalability possible.

Flexible, scalable business growth � Protect investments to meet the data storage growth requirements of any business with the ability to scale capacity to

360 TB, performance to 400K IOPS and connectivity to 1024 virtual server ports.

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

Compliance and data protection

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

� Within-system volume replication or incremental copies enable frequent backups.

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

� Audit logging tracks all system changes.

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AMS2100 SPECIFICATIONS Raw capacity 360 TB SATA

240 TB SAS

Internal disk drives

(SAS, unless otherwise noted)

3.5” form factor

• 300/600 GB (15K RPM)2 TB (7200 RPM)

• 1/2/3 TB SATA (7200 RPM)

2.5” form factor

• 300 / 600 GB (10K RPM)

Internal flash drives 200 GB SAS

Disk drive interface SAS and SATA

Host interfaces Fibre Channel: 8 Gb/s

iSCSI: 1 GigE or 10 GigE

Minimum/maximum number of disk drives 5/159

Model upgrade options Acer Hitachi AMS2300

Number of controllers 2

Host connection options 4 Fibre Channel or

8 Fibre Channel or

4 Fibre Channel and 4 iSCSI

Controller cache (per controller) 2 GB (Up to 4 GB)

Maximum attached hosts through virtual ports (per system) 1024

Backend SAS links 16

Maximum number of LUNs 2048

Physical

characteristics

Maximum LUN size 60 TB

RAID 0 (SAS drives only)

RAID 1

RAID 6

RAID 1+0

RAID 5 RAID support

Maximum number of RAID groups 50

Nondisruptive component replacement Major FRU

Nondisruptive hot-pluggable disks Yes

Nondisruptive microcode updates Yes Availability

Hi-Track® Monitor Yes1

Controller cache (per sys) 4 GB - 8 GB

Cache binding Hitachi Cache Residency Manager feature Performance Logical partitioning Hitachi Cache Partition Manager

Management software Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular 2

Common APIs Yes — Across Hitachi data storage systems

Thin provisioning Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning

Remote copy (over IP and Fibre Channel networks) Hitachi TrueCopy® Synchronous and Hitachi TrueCopy

Extended Distance

Point-in-time copy Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication and Hitachi Copy-on-

Write Snapshot

LUN change ownership LUN Manager

LUN security SAN Security

LUN grow/LUN shrink Yes

Online RAID group expansion Yes

Move data between RAID groups Modular Volume Migration

System security Account Authentication and Audit Logging

Host Storage Domains Virtual Storage Ports, Multiple LUN0/port

Storage Management Security SSL/TLS

Maintenance Port Security SSL/TLS

SNMP agent support Yes

Performance monitor Yes

Software

Heterogeneous SAN management Hitachi Storage Command Suite

Operating system

support

Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server

2008, Hyper-V™

VMware

IBM® AIX®

HP-UX

HP Tru64 UNIX

Novell NetWare

Oracle Enterprise Linux

Red Hat®

SUSE

Asianux

HP OpenVMS

Apple® Mac OS®

IBM z/OS®, when externally attached to models of the

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® family

Sun Solaris

Contact your sales representative for details.

Note: All capacities are based on 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes; 1 TB = 1000 GB.

1. Availability may vary by region.