Hitachi

• Hitachi Essential NAS Platform Datasheet

The Hitachi Essential NAS Platform™. Optimized for file sharing, backup and file server consolidation. Achieves central management and increased data availability. A cost effective network-attached storage (NAS) solution that delivers best-in-class availability and scalability at a low price.

Features

• Simplifies administration with an easy-to-use management interface
• Scales up to 512TB capacity in a two-node cluster
• Ensures high availability through clustered NAS servers with active-active failover
• Relies on redundant hot-pluggable cooling fans and power supplies
• Fully protects data with superior Hitachi hardware-based redundant array of independent disks (RAID) technology
• Ensures data integrity with synchronous replication by Hitachi TrueCopy® Remote Replication software*
• Delivers asynchronous replication with Hitachi Universal Replicator software, TrueCopy Extended Distance and NAS Replication Utility for SyncImage(RUS)*

* Available via command line interface (CLI) at first release. Graphical universal interface (GUI) version to be released in future version.

Benefits

Offers outstanding value

• Economically priced
• Investment protection with an easy upgrade path from entry level to higher end models

Reduces operational and capital costs

• Best-in-class availability and scalability
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by consolidating multiple file servers into one NAS system

Mitigates risk and increases reliability

• Reduced operator errors with centralized backup
• High availability with RAID-6 dual-parity striping

Improves productivity

• Enterprise-wide file sharing access
• Reliable and efficient manageability with greatly reduced downtime