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Hitachi Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Hitachi Vision

Hitachi Data Systems offers you the best in NAS and storage area network (SAN) solutions without sacrificing either performance or ease of use.

Why Hitachi NAS?

Today’s Hitachi NAS solutions provide ultimate performance, scalability, reliability and value in a flexible platform designed to expand effortlessly to meet the growing requirements of every customer.

Offerings

The Hitachi portfolio of NAS solutions for enterprise, large and medium businesses simplifies the deployment and management of NAS and SAN while providing high return on investment (ROI):

  • Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®
  • Hitachi Essential NAS Platform

Features

  • Simplified management and infrastructure
  • Seamlessly scale up or scale out
  • Resource optimization
  • Accelerated productivity
  • Improved data protection
  • Reduced costs

High-Performance NAS Platform

The Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®, is an advanced and integrated network-attached storage (NAS) solution that Hitachi Data Systems co-brands with BlueArc.

It is a powerful tool for NAS or file server consolidation, data protection and general purpose NAS workload:

  • New Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 3100 and 3200: the next generation of this intelligent platform for file services:
    • Doubles in performance: up to 1.6 GB/sec and 200,000 input/outputs per second (IOPS) per node
    • Doubles in scalability: manage up to 4PB of data in a single storage pool1
    • Seamlessly integrated with the Hitachi Data Discovery Suite for search and index across NAS platforms and the Hitachi Content Archive Platform
  • Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 2100 and 2200: scalable solutions for enterprise-class consolidation and high-performance applications
  • Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 2000: effective file server consolidation solution and advanced feature set for mid-sized organizations
  • Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 2000 nearline: cost effective disk-to-disk data protection solution, which provides an alternative to management-heavy tape storage

Features

  • Hardware-accelerated network storage with up to 1.6 GB/sec throughput for sequential workloads and up to 200,000 IOPS, making it easy to scale from the 2000 series to the new 3000 series
  • Data scalability with up to 4PB in a single storage pool and file systems up to 256TB(1)
  • Active-active clustering of up to 8 nodes with near linear performance scalability
  • Integrated with powerful Hitachi HiCommand® storage management suite
  • Block- and file-level replication
  • Tiered Storage across Fibre Channel and serial ATA (SATA)
  • Cluster Name Space for unified directory structure
  • Policy-based Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) feature
  • Up to 64 virtual servers with role-based security and virus scanning
  • Up to 4 million files per directory
  • Integrated with the Hitachi Data Discovery Suite for file search and indexing capabilities

(1) Requires storage logical unit number (LUN) size greater than 2TB. With current LUN size of Hitachi storage systems, the capacity supported is 1 PB.

Benefits

With market leadership in scalability and performance, the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform enables consolidation of NAS devices or file servers to simplify IT infrastructure, reduce management complexity and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The advanced virtualization and data protection capabilities in this NAS solution for file services provides significantly improved efficiency agility and greater utilization across NAS environments.

Renowned for exceptional performance, the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform lets customers with performance driven applications improve productivity and competitiveness by:

  • Reducing processing cycle times
  • Rapidly responding to changing demands
  • Seamlessly scaling workloads and capacity
  • Increasing the number of simultaneous users or projects