Citrix Compatibility

Gateway AMS2100 is verified to be compatible with:

Gateway AMS2100 is a highly reliable, flexible and scalable storage system for Microsoft Exchange Server, databases and other business applications.

Easy to set up and administer

• Eliminates requirements to set preferred paths from hosts to storage
• System self balances workloads across both controllers
• "Single pane of glass" to integrate and manage multiple Hitachi systems
• Simplified RAID group placement using SAS backplane architecture
• Helpful documents and web portal

Unsurpassed Reliability and Data Availability

• 99.999 percent data availability with no single point of failure
• Non-disruptive microcode updates
• Hot swappable major components
• Dual-battery backup for cache
• Flexible drive sparing with no copy back required after a RAID rebuild
• In system and remote site data replication options
• RAID-6 dual parity support for enhanced reliability when using large SATA and SAS drives

Cost-effective performance

• Full-duplex, 3Gbps SAS drive interface that can simultaneously send and receive commands or data on the same link
• 32 concurrent disk I/O paths provide up to 9600MB/s of total system bandwidth
• Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller automatically balances loads to eliminate bottlenecks for outstanding performance

Tremendous scalability

• Ability to add capacity, connectivity, and performance as needed
• Concurrent support of large heterogeneous open systems environments with up to 2048 virtual server ports and 4096 LUNs
• Scale performance to 900,000 IOPS
• Mega LUNs, up to 60TB, enable set-it-and-forget-it provisioning

Highly Flexible Systems

• Intermixed SAS and SATA drives can share the same tray to save cost
• Dense Expansion Tray option holds up to 48 disks in a 4U (176mm) high tray
• Available with a -48V DC power supply that is also NEBS-3 compliant for Telcos and DC powered datacenters
• Multiprotocol support for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces
• Combine with Hitachi High performance NAS for simultaneous block and file access

Platform for solution delivery

• Ideal for changing workloads in a server virtualization environment
• Technical guides to setup applications and systems for best performance and highest scalability possible

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