Hitachi AMS1000, NSC55, AMS500, AMS200 manual Workgroup Modular Storage Model WMS100

Adaptable Modular Storage Models AMS200 and AMS500

Designed for small-to-midsize organizations that require enterprise-quality storage management capabilities, the Adaptable Modular Storage models AMS200 and AMS500 offer excellent cost-efficient platforms in a modular footprint. With support for both SATA and Fibre Channel drives, these systems can be deployed as part of a tiered infrastructure, in a SAN, or even as tiered storage ”in a box.”

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Microsoft Simple SAN storage platforms. Support Microsoft Windows servers seamlessly using Plug-and-play SAN Kits from Hitachi Data Systems, which are compatible with Microsoft Simple SAN.

Scalability and Performance. Provide unequalled application-specific performance and capacity that scales beyond 173TB.

Consolidation. Reduce the number of storage systems, maximize storage utilization, improve storage administrators’ productivity, and lower management and environmental costs.

Application Quality of Service (QoS). Dedicate cache to specific applications and volumes to enhance performance.

Tiered Storage Deployment. Benefit from the economy of solutions that match application requirements and value of data to the right class of storage.

Configuration Flexibility. Host virtually any workload and multiple perform- ance and archive requirements on the most economical storage system with SATA and Fibre Channel intermix; use also for disk-to-disk backup and tape replacement.

Ease of Management. Simplify configuration and storage administration via easy-to-use graphical user interfaces.

High Availability and Reliability. Leverage RAID-6 dual-parity striping for more reliable rebuild in the rare event of a disk drive failure; maximize uptime with redundant hot-pluggable components and high-reliability Hitachi SATA implementation.

Business Continuity. Leverage in-system and remote replication (AMS500 only) backup software to shrink backup windows and expedite recovery from application failures.

Lower TCO. Maximize storage utilization, centralize management of stor- age through consolidation, improve storage administrators’ productivity, and reduce downtime.

Workgroup Modular Storage Model WMS100

Offering excellent scalability and performance, Workgroup Modular Storage model WMS100 leverages cost-effective SATA drives without compromising reliability and data integrity. The WMS100 can be quickly installed and config- ured to serve as a core storage system or for fast SAN deployment in small organizations or workgroups, or for data archive applications in tiered storage deployments at larger enterprises.

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Microsoft Simple SAN storage platforms. Support Microsoft Windows servers seamlessly using Plug-and-play SAN Kits from Hitachi Data Systems, which are compatible with Microsoft Simple SAN.

Scalability and Performance. Provide excellent performance and scalability beyond 40TB in a highly cost-effective SATA-based package for small companies.

Consolidation. Reduce the number of storage systems, maximize storage utilization, improve storage administrators’ productivity, and lower management costs.