Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000
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Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 is the brand name of Hitachi Data Systems
mid-range storage platforms.
The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family of storage systems was announced in October, 2008. They can be reconfigured and optimized to accommodate changing business requirements. This midrange product family is built around a serial attached SCSI
(SAS) architecture and has a symmetric active/active controller design.
This family of storage systems include:
All models support RAID-6 disk configurations, Fibre Channel
and iSCSI
host interfaces, as well as the ability to intermix Flash drives with SAS and SATA
disk drives in the same tray. They also support both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces in the same controller.
The AMS 2000 family of storage systems are available with just a few terabytes of storage up to 940TB of storage. These storage systems support upgrade in place to larger models of the AMS 2000 family as well as migration to new RAID groups while the system is in operation.
Volumes can be accessed from either controller at the same speed. As a result, microcode updates can be done while the system is operating and without any interruption to host I/Os. In addition, the workload of each controller is continually monitored and can be automatically brought into balance whenever necessary. As a result of the monitoring and automated load balancing the utilization imbalances between controllers which traditionally have led to performance bottlenecks can be avoided.
arbitration resulting in better performance and enables improved end user troubleshooting by detecting and displaying failed drives automatically.
The storage capacity of the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family scales to 940TB. With the bandwidth provided by the SAS architecture, performance continues to increase as more drives are added to the system.
All models of the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family support host path failover, fully redundant, hot swappable components, online microcode updates and mirrored cache with battery backup. The active-active controllers include automatic failover.
Advanced security capabilities include Hitachi Data Retention Utility software with its “write once, read many” (WORM
) feature that protects data from overwrites or erasures for long periods of time. System management access limits authorization to change the system. System audit logging records all system changes. Communications between the management software and storage are encrypted.
The AMS 2000 family lets you choose drives to meet your business needs:
The High Density Storage Tray provides 48 SATA or 38 SAS disks in a 4U
(176mm) high tray. Up to 480 disks can be installed in a single rack without sacrificing performance or availability.
This family of storage systems supports retracting the heads on SATA disk drives or even intelligently spinning down drives that are not active to reduce energy consumption. IN addition, the system fans operate at variable speeds, determined by the system’s internal temperature, which can also result in lower energy consumption. It also offers the Dense Expansion Tray option which holds up to 48 SATA or 38 SAS disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray.
The AMS 2000 family of storage systems provides software wizards and web-based tools for configuration, management and maintenance. Flexible sparing of disk drives eliminates the need to
copy back after a RAID group rebuild.
. It supports connectivity to 2048 virtual server ports and is able to intermix high performance SAS drives and cost optimized SATA drives in the same system. This system has 16 concurrent disk I/O paths providing up to 4800MB/s of total system bandwidth. It can also attach to either or both Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage networks for storage consolidation.
Its is capability of scaling capacity up to 472TB and delivering performance up to 900K IOPS with connectivity for up to 2048 virtual server ports. This model supports intermix of high performance SAS drives and cost optimized SATA drives in the same system for tiered storage solutions. It supports connectivty to Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage networks for storage consolidation. This models employs NEBS-3/ETSI compliant, -48V DC power supply for telcos and DC powered data centers.
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems is a company providing mid-range and high-end storage systems, software and services. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. and part of the Hitachi Information Systems & Telecommunications Division....
mid-range storage platforms.
The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family of storage systems was announced in October, 2008. They can be reconfigured and optimized to accommodate changing business requirements. This midrange product family is built around a serial attached SCSI
Serial Attached SCSI
Serial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
(SAS) architecture and has a symmetric active/active controller design.
This family of storage systems include:
- Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100
- Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300
- Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500
- Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500DC
All models support RAID-6 disk configurations, Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
and iSCSI
ISCSI
In computing, iSCSI , is an abbreviation of Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol -based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage...
host interfaces, as well as the ability to intermix Flash drives with SAS and SATA
Sata
Sata is a traditional dish from the Malaysian state of Terengganu, consisting of spiced fish meat wrapped in banana leaves and cooked on a grill.It is a type of Malaysian fish cake, or otak-otak...
disk drives in the same tray. They also support both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces in the same controller.
The AMS 2000 family of storage systems are available with just a few terabytes of storage up to 940TB of storage. These storage systems support upgrade in place to larger models of the AMS 2000 family as well as migration to new RAID groups while the system is in operation.
Automated storage controller
Each AMS2000 model comes with dual controllers that automate many storage management tasks. The symmetric active/active architecture with dynamic load balancing provides integrated, automated, front-to-back-end I/O load balancing. In this design both controllers are active and able to dynamically access any volume from a host port on either controller with no penalty on performance. By eliminating the need for each volume to be assigned to an owning controller, servers can be connected to either controller on an AMS2000 without establishing a primary and failover path to their volumes. With this design SAN path management software is not required.Volumes can be accessed from either controller at the same speed. As a result, microcode updates can be done while the system is operating and without any interruption to host I/Os. In addition, the workload of each controller is continually monitored and can be automatically brought into balance whenever necessary. As a result of the monitoring and automated load balancing the utilization imbalances between controllers which traditionally have led to performance bottlenecks can be avoided.
SAS Architecture
SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is the interface architecture used to transmit data from the storage controllers to the disk drives in the Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family. The SAS interface is a full duplex, point-to-point architecture with up to 9600MB/sec of total system bandwidth and up to 32 links available for concurrent I/O activity. This design eliminates FC LoopArbitrated loop
Arbitrated loop, also known as FC-AL, is a Fibre Channel topology in which devices are connected in a one-way loop fashion in a ring topology. Historically it was a lower-cost alternative to a fabric topology. It allowed connection of many servers and computer storage devices without using then...
arbitration resulting in better performance and enables improved end user troubleshooting by detecting and displaying failed drives automatically.
Additional Features
The AMS 2000 family of storage systems includes Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software, which provides proprietary automatic optimized wide striping of data across all available disks. It enables storage to be provisioned when the application actually requires it, rather than at allocation time.The storage capacity of the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family scales to 940TB. With the bandwidth provided by the SAS architecture, performance continues to increase as more drives are added to the system.
All models of the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family support host path failover, fully redundant, hot swappable components, online microcode updates and mirrored cache with battery backup. The active-active controllers include automatic failover.
Advanced security capabilities include Hitachi Data Retention Utility software with its “write once, read many” (WORM
Write Once Read Many
A Write Once Read Many or WORM drive is a data storage device where information, once written, cannot be modified. On ordinary data storage devices, the number of times data can be modified is not limited, except by the rated lifespan of the device, as modification involves physical changes that...
) feature that protects data from overwrites or erasures for long periods of time. System management access limits authorization to change the system. System audit logging records all system changes. Communications between the management software and storage are encrypted.
The AMS 2000 family lets you choose drives to meet your business needs:
- Flash
- 15K RPM SAS
- 7200 RPM SATA II
The High Density Storage Tray provides 48 SATA or 38 SAS disks in a 4U
Rack unit
A rack unit or U is a unit of measure used to describe the height of equipment intended for mounting in a 19-inch rack or a 23-inch rack...
(176mm) high tray. Up to 480 disks can be installed in a single rack without sacrificing performance or availability.
This family of storage systems supports retracting the heads on SATA disk drives or even intelligently spinning down drives that are not active to reduce energy consumption. IN addition, the system fans operate at variable speeds, determined by the system’s internal temperature, which can also result in lower energy consumption. It also offers the Dense Expansion Tray option which holds up to 48 SATA or 38 SAS disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray.
The AMS 2000 family of storage systems provides software wizards and web-based tools for configuration, management and maintenance. Flexible sparing of disk drives eliminates the need to
copy back after a RAID group rebuild.
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100
The AMS 2100 has the ability to scale capacity to 313TB and delivers performance of up to 400K IOPS. This storage system has 16 concurrent disk I/O paths providing up to 4800MB/s of total system bandwidth. It has connectivity for up to 1024 virtual server ports and supports the intermix high performance SAS drives and cost optimized SATA drives in the same system for tiered storage solutions. It can attach to both Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage networks.Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300
The AMS 2100 has the ability to scale capacity to 472TB and can deliver performance of up to 400K IOPSIOPS
IOPS is a common performance measurement used to benchmark computer storage devices like hard disk drives , solid state drives , and storage area networks...
. It supports connectivity to 2048 virtual server ports and is able to intermix high performance SAS drives and cost optimized SATA drives in the same system. This system has 16 concurrent disk I/O paths providing up to 4800MB/s of total system bandwidth. It can also attach to either or both Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage networks for storage consolidation.
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500
The AMS 2500 is capable of scaling capacity to 944TB and delivering performance up to 900K IOPS with connectivity for up to 2048 virtual server ports. It has 32 concurrent disk I/O paths providing 9600MB/s of total system bandwidth. This storage system supports intermix of high performance SAS drives and cost optimized SATA drives for tiered storage solutions. It supports connectivity to Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage networks for storage consolidation.Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500DC
The AMS 2500DC is designed for operation in DC powered data centers typically found in telco central offices and large or enterprise businesses.Its is capability of scaling capacity up to 472TB and delivering performance up to 900K IOPS with connectivity for up to 2048 virtual server ports. This model supports intermix of high performance SAS drives and cost optimized SATA drives in the same system for tiered storage solutions. It supports connectivty to Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage networks for storage consolidation. This models employs NEBS-3/ETSI compliant, -48V DC power supply for telcos and DC powered data centers.
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage Physical Characteristics
| AMS 2100 | AMS 2300 | AMS 2500 | AMS 2500DC | |
Raw capacity | SATA - 313TB SAS - 78TB | SATA - 472TB SAS - 138TB | SATA - 944TB SAS - 276TB | SATA - 472TB SAS - 210TB |
Internal disk drives (min-max) | SAS 300GB (15K RPM) 450GB (15K RPM) 600GB (15K RPM) SATA II 1TB (7200 RPM) 2TB (7200 RPM) Internal flash drives Solid-state drive A solid-state drive , sometimes called a solid-state disk or electronic disk, is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data with the intention of providing access in the same manner of a traditional block i/o hard disk drive... 200GB (SAS) | SAS 300GB (15K RPM) 450GB (15K RPM) SATA II 1TB (7200 RPM) | ||
Min-Max # of drives SAS: 4-136 SATA: 4-159 Internal Flash drives: 0-15 | Min-Max # of drives SAS & SATA: 4-240 Internal Flash drives: 0-15 | Min-Max # of drives SAS & SATA: 4-480 Internal Flash drives: 30 | Min-Max # of drives SAS & SATA: 4-480 Internal Flash drives: 30 | |
Host interfaces | Fibre Channel: 8Gb/sec iSCSI: GigE | Fibre Channel: 4Gb/sec iSCSI: GigE | ||
Host connection options | Fibre Channel: 4 Fibre Channel: 8 Fibre Channel: 4 and iSCSI: 4 | Fibre Channel: 4 Fibre Channel: 8 Fibre Channel: 8 and iSCSI: 4 | Fibre Channel: 16 iSCSI: 8 Fibre Channel: 8 and iSCSI: 4 | |
Maximum attached hosts through virtual ports | 1024 | 2048 | ||
SAS links | 16 | 32 | ||
LUNs | Max size: 60TB | |||
Max #: 2048 | Max #: 4096 | |||
RAID RAID RAID is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit... Support | RAID-0 (SAS drives only) RAID-1 RAID-1+0 RAID-5 RAID-6 | |||
Max RAID groups: 50 | Max RAID groups: 75 | Max RAID groups: 100 | ||
Availability | Nondisruptive replacement of major FRU Field Replaceable Unit This article is primarily about FRUs in computers.A field replaceable unit is a circuit board, part or assembly that can be quickly and easily removed from a personal computer or other piece of electronic equipment, and replaced by the user or a technician without having to send the entire product... components Nondisruptive hot-pluggable disks Nondisruptive microcode Microcode Microcode is a layer of hardware-level instructions and/or data structures involved in the implementation of higher level machine code instructions in many computers and other processors; it resides in special high-speed memory and translates machine instructions into sequences of detailed... updates Hi-Track® Remote Monitoring system | |||
Performance | Controller cache: 4GB–8GB (per system) | Controller cache: 8GB–16GB (per system) | Controller cache: 16GB–32GB (per system) | Controller cache: 16GB–32GB (per system) |
Cache binding: Hitachi Cache Residency Manager feature Logical partitioning: Hitachi Cache Partition Manager feature | ||||