Features And Benefits; Supported Host Operating Systems; High Data Availability; Connectivity - Hitachi AMS 2100 Hardware Manual

Features and benefits

This section describes the main features and benefits of the AMS 2100/2300
disk arrays.

Supported host operating systems

The AMS 2100/2300 supports the following operating systems on host
computers. Details for each operating system are described in Hitachi
AMS 2000 Family iSCSI Host Installation Guide and Hitachi AMS 2000
Family Fibre Channel Host Installation Guide.
• Microsoft Windows 2008
• Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
• Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2003 Server (Service Pack 1)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3/4)
• Sun™ Solaris™ v8, v9, and v10.
• HPUX
• Red Hat Linux
• SUSE Linux
• AIX
• Asianux
• Novell NetWare version 6.5 SP6, SP7 (for Fibre Channel only)
• Apple Macintosh OS10 (Fibre Channel only)

High data availability

The AMS 2300 is designed for high performance and protection of user data.
See Reliability, availability, and serviceability on page 1-21
information on the reliability and availability features of the AMS 2100/
2300.

Connectivity

The AMS 2100/2300 supports most open systems through standard Fibre
Channel interfaces or standard iSCSI interfaces. The base unit can be
configured with control units that have either Fibre Channel interface boards
or iSCSI interface boards installed. Both control units must be configured
with the same type of interface board.

Fibre channel interface

The AMS 2100 supports two Fibre Channel ports per controller, and the AMS
2300 supports 4 Fibre Channel ports per controller.
The AMS2300 with an 8 Gbps Fibre Channel connection can transfer data
between the host computer and the disk array at a maximum speed of 800
MB/s for one port.
Introduction
Hitachi AMS 2100/2300 Storage System Hardware Guide
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