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

It is also a top choice for tiered and standalone ■■ The Dense Expansion Tray option holds up storage, consolidation, business continuity, to 48 disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray to data , backup and archiving. reduce facility costs. Business Solutions ■■ The Power Savings feature reduces Hitachi Data Systems and its Hitachi Resilient, Enterprise Class utility charges. TrueNorth Channel Partners offer industry Storage at a Modular Price leading technology to help organizations Simplified, Reliable, Integrated Storage of all sizes meet their unique require- Burgeoning data growth and complex storage ■■ Rely on 99.999 percent data availability. ments for business continuity, regulatory infrastructures are prevalent challenges facing ■■ Minimize disruption and risk with no single compliance and data recovery. Together, most organizations today, along with the need point of failure and mirrored cache with we provide cost effective storage prod- for high availability, performance, scalability battery backup. ucts and solutions that leverage world and data protection — usually all at once. ■■ Improve administrative efficiencies with renowned Hitachi global R&D resources Hitachi Data Systems understands these chal- wizard-based installation and configuration. to deliver performance, availability and lenges and has developed a Services Oriented ■■ scalability — supporting business critical Storage approach to match application and Centralize and manage multiple systems applications and strengthening competi- business requirements to storage attributes. and automate data replication — all from a tive advantage. Now, Hitachi Data Systems brings its medium single pane of glass. and large customers these proven solutions ■■ Reduce time spent on configuration Modular Storage for Midsized in modular, cost effective packaging — the with Hitachi Data Systems solution-ready Organizations Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100. platforms that are certified and tested ■■ Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500DC with the leading business applications. ■■ Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500 Detailed technical guides assist in getting Business Benefits ■■ Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300 the best performance and highest Reduce Management, Facilities and ■■ Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 Energy Costs scalability possible. ■■ Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller Flexible, Scalable Business Growth automatically reduces controller bottlenecks; ■■ Protect investments to meet the data stor- it is ideal for VMware environments. age growth requirements of any business ■■ Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning pro- with the ability to scale capacity to 156TB, vides “virtual storage capacity” to eliminate performance to 400K IOPS and connectivity application service interruptions, reduce to 512 virtual server ports. costs and simplify administration. ■■ Expand as business grows with easy data-in-place upgrades.

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Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100 Specifications

Physical Characteristics Software Raw capacity 156TB SATA Management software Hitachi Storage Navigator 52TB SAS Modular 2 software Internal disk drives 300GB (15K RPM) Common APIs YES — Across Hitachi data storage systems (SAS, unless otherwise noted) 450GB (15K RPM) 1TB SATA II (7200 RPM) Thin provisioning Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software ® Disk drive interface SAS and SATA Remote copy (over IP and Fibre Hitachi TrueCopy Synchronous and Hitachi Channel networks) TrueCopy Extended Distance software Host interfaces Fibre Channel: 4Gb/sec ® iSCSI: GigE Point-in-time copy Hitachi ShadowImage Replication and Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software Minimum/maximum number 4 – 159 of disk drives Backup Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault® Model upgrade options Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300, Hitachi Adaptable Heterogeneous data replication Hitachi Dynamic Replicator software Modular Storage 2500 LUN change ownership LUN Manager Number of controllers 2 LUN security SAN Security software Maximum host connections 4 Fibre Channel or 4 iSCSI LUN grow/LUN shrink YES Maximum attached hosts through 512 Online RAID group expansion YES virtual ports Move data between RAID groups Modular Volume Migration software SAS links 16 System security Account Authentication and Audit Logging Maximum number of LUNs 2048 Host Storage Domains Virtual Storage Ports, Multiple LUN0/port Maximum LUN size 60TB Storage system–based “write once, Hitachi Data Retention Utility software RAID Support read many” (WORM) data protection n RAID-0 (SAS drives only) n RAID-1 n RAID-1+0 Storage Management Security SSL/TLS n RAID-5 n RAID-6 Maintenance Port Security SSL/TLS Maximum number of RAID groups 50 SNMP agent support YES Availability Performance monitor YES Nondisruptive component replacement Major FRU Heterogeneous SAN management Hitachi Storage Command Suite software Nondisruptive hot-pluggable disks YES Nondisruptive microcode updates YES Operating Systems Support Hi-Track® Monitor YES n Microsoft ® Windows n HP Tru64 UNIX n HP OpenVMS Performance 2000, Windows n Novell NetWare n Apple MAC OS Server 2003, ® Controller cache (per system) 4GB – 8GB n Oracle Enterprise n IBM z/OS , when Windows Server Cache binding Hitachi Cache Residency externally attached to 2008, Hyper-V™ Manager feature n Red Hat models of the Hitachi n VMware Universal Storage Logical partitioning Hitachi Cache Partition n SUSE Manager feature n IBM ® AIX® Platform® family n Asianux n HP-UX n Sun Solaris Note: All capacities are based on 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes; 1TB = 1000GB

Compliance and Data Protection ■■ RAID-6 ensures high availability and protection — any two drives can fail Corporate Headquarters 750 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, California 95050-2627 USA without the loss of any data. Contact Information: + 1 408 970 1000 www.hds.com / [email protected] ■■ Hi-Track® Monitor for 24/7 diagnostics keeps Asia Pacific and Americas 750 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, California 95050-2627 USA Contact Information: + 1 408 970 1000 www.hds.com / [email protected] potential issues from becoming problems. Europe Headquarters Sefton Park, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire SL2 4HD United Kingdom ■■ Within-system volume replication or incre- Contact Information: + 44 (0) 1753 618000 www.hds.com / [email protected] mental copies enable frequent backups. Hitachi is a registered trademark of Hitachi, Ltd., in the United States and other countries. Hitachi Data Systems is a ■■ Flexible sparing eliminates the need to registered trademark and service mark of Hitachi, Ltd., in the United States and other countries. copy back after a RAID group rebuild. IBM, z/OS and AIX are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document or Web site are properties of their ■■ Audit logging tracks all system changes. respective owners. Notice: This document is for informational purposes only, and does not set forth any warranty, expressed or implied, ■■ Hitachi Data Retention Utility software concerning any equipment or service offered or to be offered by Hitachi Data Systems. This document describes some capabilities that are conditioned on a maintenance contract with Hitachi Data Systems being in effect, and that may be protects data from overwrites or erasures configuration dependent and features that may not be currently available. Contact your local Hitachi Data Systems sales office for information on feature and product availability. for long periods of time. © Hitachi Data Systems Corporation 2009. All Rights Reserved. DS-070-E DG December 2009