AS2040

Reliable, cost-effective storage For small and mid-sized businesses, Acer Hitachi AS2040 is an easy-to-use, highly reliable,

quick to set up,1 and cost-effective storage system for Microsoft® Exchange Server, VMware®,

databases and other business applications.

Reduced management costs � Hitachi Dynamic Load Balancing Controller automatically reduces controller bottlenecks; it is ideal for server virtualization

environments.

� Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software2 provides "virtual storage capacity" to eliminate application service interruptions,

reduce costs, and simplify administration.

Simplified, reliable, integrated storage � Rely on 99.999% data availability.

� Minimize disruption and risk with no single point of failure and mirrored cache with battery backup.

� Improve administrative efficiencies with wizard-based configuration set-up and provisioning.

� Reduce time spent on configuration with solution-ready platforms that are certified and tested with leading business

applications.

Flexible, scalable business growth � Protect investments to meet the data storage growth requirements of any business with the ability to scale capacity to 270

TB, performance to 400K IOPS and connectivity to 512 virtual server ports.

� Expand as business grows with easy data-in-place upgrades.

Compliance and data protection � RAID 6 ensures high availability and protection — any two drives can fail without the loss of any data.

� Within-system volume replication or incremental copies enable frequent backups.

� Flexible sparing eliminates the need to copy back after a RAID group rebuild.

� Audit logging tracks all system changes.

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AS2040 SPECIFICATIONS

Raw capacity 270 TB SATA

180 TB SAS

Internal disk drives

(SAS, unless otherwise noted)

3.5” form factor

• 300/600 GB (15K RPM)2 TB (7200 RPM)

• 1/2/3 TB SATA (7200 RPM)

2.5” form factor

300 / 600 GB (10K RPM)

Host interfaces Fibre Channel: 4 or 8 Gb/s

iSCSI: 1 GigE or 10 GigE

Minimum/maximum number of disk drives 5 – 60 or 90

Number of controllers 1 or 2

Maximum host connections (per controller) 2 iSCSI4 or

2 Fibre Channel or

2 Fibre Channel and 2 iSCSI

Controller cache (per controller) 2 GB

Maximum attached hosts through virtual ports (per controller) 256

Backend SAS links (per controller) 8

Maximum number of LUNs 2048

Physical

characteristics3, 4

Maximum LUN size 60 TB

RAID 0 (SAS drives only)

RAID 1

RAID 6

RAID 1+0

RAID 5 RAID support

Maximum number of RAID groups 50

Nondisruptive component replacement Major FRU

Nondisruptive hot-pluggable disks Yes Availability Nondisruptive microcode updates Yes

Management software Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular 2

LUN change ownership LUN Manager

Online LUN grow/LUN shrink Yes

Online RAID group expansion Yes

Dynamic storage tuning to move data between RAID groups Modular Volume Migration

Role based system security Account Authentication and Audit Logging

Host storage domains Virtual Storage Ports, Multiple LUN0/port

Cache binding Hitachi Cache Residency Manager

Logical cache partitioning Hitachi Cache Partition Manager

Storage management security SSL/TLS

Maintenance port security SSL/TLS

SNMP agent support Yes

Software

Performance monitor Yes

Thin provisioning Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning

Remote copy (over IP and Fibre Channel networks)4, 5 Hitachi TrueCopy® (Synchronous Remote Mirroring) Optional software

Point-in-time copy Hitachi ShadowImage® Replication and Hitachi Copy-on-

Write Snapshot

Operating system

support

Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server

2008, Hyper-V™

VMware

IBM® AIX®

HP-UX

HP Tru64 UNIX

Novell NetWare

Oracle Enterprise Linux

Red Hat®

SUSE

Asianux

HP OpenVMS

Apple® Mac OS®

IBM z/OS®, when externally attached to models of the

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® family

Sun Solaris

Contact your sales representative for details.

Note: All capacities are based on 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes; 1 TB = 1000 GB.

1. Acer and Hitachi Data Systems now offer "Dealer-Installable Services" at a nominal fee to make the system setup and installation quick and easy.

Please check with an Acer Authorized partner for more information.

2. Optional.

3. Specifications vary depending on model, configuration and availability. Please check with an Acer Authorized Partner for more details.

4. Availability may vary by country.