Support and maintenance of Hitachi HDS storage
Hitachi has a range of storage products from entry-level to enterprise-class tier 1 storage complete with fiber channel host connectivity options for NAS and iSCSI. Using proprietary management software and non-disruptively replaceable hardware components, the AMS and 9500V series storage devices can be found in many mission-critical IT infrastructures. THE DC Parts understands that you may still be utilizing these systems for vital operational services and a viable support package is crucial. While these systems may have reached their manufacturer's end-of-life (EOL) date, that doesn't mean they're no longer vital to your business.
Maintenance of Hitachi HDS storage
A key factor for most organizations today is the ability to utilize and maximize internal resources to minimize any additional operational costs. THE DC Parts provides a variety of services to support maintenance solutions that focus on this ideology. These services range from providing organizations with onsite maintenance spare parts and utilizing available in-house resource as a cost-effective approach as opposed to a comprehensive maintenance support solution. This service can also be enhanced by providing additional technical resources through remote assistance if a specific skill set is required, but still maintaining a cost-prohibitive solution.
It is becoming more difficult for organizations to have access to independent and vendor-independent service providers. Many of these service providers have now, to some extent, become resellers. Understanding whether you really need to upgrade your storage platform now instead of extending system support can be challenging. We can help you determine whether replacing your end-of-life system is the best financial option or whether ongoing support would be beneficial in maintaining and meeting your company's IT objectives.
Get in contact with us to see if we can provide the guarantees you need, especially to explore an alternative maintenance support service.
Residual asset value for your Hitachi HDS hardware
Our exclusive Hitachi HDS storage maintenance and support service can provide you with the potential to customize a cost-neutral maintenance contract for Hitachi HDS storage that is now post-warranty, end of life or end of life (EOL / EOSL). Our service allows customers with Hitachi HDS hardware to have multiple stages in a lifecycle program, while providing extended maintenance support, regardless of the need for 3,6,9 or even 12 months of support, thereby effectively creating a cost-neutral solution.
Cost reduction in your contract
We allow a cost-neutral maintenance solution to be provided through the residual value on your Hitachi HDS storage hardware that we would remove at the end of the agreed maintenance support term. As well as services for secure deactivation and elimination of data according to internal compliance requirements will also be part of the discussion of the hardware lifecycle services program.
If you don't need a support service, our maintenance service can still benefit you. As such, we can provide a residual value quote for your IT server and storage hardware and discuss the decommissioning and data erasure process, allowing you to achieve a much greater return on your initial capital investment. There is no obligation to obtain a quote from DC Parts, but lets you explore whether this service might be viable and beneficial for you.
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The Hitachi TagmaStore AMS (Adaptable Modular Storage) series offers SAN solutions for entry-level to enterprise requirements. The entry-level AMS200 featured 2 Gbps fiber channel host connectivity and supported up to 105 FC or 90 SATA drives and was primarily targeted at the SMB market. The AMS2500, however, was designed for the corporate market, with fiber channel (8 Gbps) and iSCSI (1 Gbps) host interfaces and a total capacity of 480 SAS or SATA disks. The entire range of AMS storage platforms featured fully redundant, non-disruptive replaceable hardware components and microcode updates. Combined with Hitachi's range of SAN software packages, including remote copy, point in time replication and thin provisioning and LUN scaling, AMS systems provide a flexible and resilient SAN solution for many customers.
The AMS200, AMS500 and AMS1000 have already passed their end-of-life (EOL) dates, but could still be a viable solution for less critical environments or as archival platforms. The AMS2xxx array of storage arrays are approaching their end-of-life dates, but are still capable of providing high-throughput, low-latency data access. THE DC Parts can help with a re-deployment project for legacy systems or ongoing support for systems approaching their end-of-life dates. Our technical knowledge of Hitachi products allows us to assist our customers in any of these scenarios, providing the confidence to extend the life of the hardware. With customized support contracts, technical consulting services and experienced field engineers, DC Parts can help lower the total cost of ownership of your Hitachi HDS products.
Benefits of maintenance support DC Parts in storage Hitachi HDS Tagmastore AMS
- Technical diagnostics and hardware repair Hitachi Tagmastore AMS
- Level 3 engineer assigned to an account
- Global service availability
- Email alert notification
- Maintenance support for current and end-of-life Hitachi equipment
- Pro-rata support and co-termination dates
- Consultancy
- Detailed health check reports
- Site audits / surveys
- Data / platform migration
- IT decommissioning
- Data erasure
- Highly experienced and specially trained technical field engineers
- Spare parts kit on site
- Various methods for generating a fault ticket ticket
- Helpdesk assistance
- Operation and configuration assistance
- HiCommand Storage Services Manager
- Hitachi Storage Navigator
- Flexible short and long-term maintenance support contracts
- Hardware rental
- DMR (digital media retention)
- Operational savings
End of support Hitachi HDS Tagmastore AMS, but not DC Parts
EOSL Dates 'End of Life Useful '
- AMS200 - DECEMBER 2015
- AMS500 - DECEMBER 2015
- AMS1000 - DECEMBER 2015
- AMS2100 - SEPTEMBER 2017
- AMS2300 - SEPTEMBER 2017
- AMS2500 - SEPTEMBER 2017
Hitachi Thunder 9500 V storage platforms ranged from small-scale, single-compartment Fiber Channel disk implementations to medium-bay SATA and Fiber Channel disk systems with up to 30 expansion drawers. They all support multiple RAID levels for performance and resiliency and dual controller configurations to maintain data availability. With 2 Gbps FC host connectivity, mirrored CACHE and hot-swappable replaceable hardware components, the Thunder 9500 V series is a flexible and resilient SAN solution. With a series of optional system replication software packages, SAN-to-SAN replication for LUN size expansion and support for multiple host operating systems, the Thunder 9500 V series of arrays was a flexible and efficient storage solution.
The Thunder 9500V series reached End of Life (EoL) in early 2013, but that doesn't mean it's no longer a viable storage platform. While the performance of these systems may be outdated compared to modern SANs, they still have the ability to support less intensive IO requirements or be used as a viable and reliable data archiving platform. THE DC Parts understands that the functional capacity of a system is not determined by the manufacturer's end-of-life announcement, but by the existence of an environment that it can still support. We understand that the Thunder 9500 V platform can allow you to redeploy a system, greatly increasing your Return on Investment (ROI) and reducing your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Benefits of maintenance support DC Parts in storage Hitachi HDS Thunder 9500V
- Technical diagnostics and hardware repair Hitachi Thunder 9500 V
- Level 3 engineer assigned to an account
- Global service availability
- Email alert notification
- Maintenance support for current and end-of-life Hitachi equipment
- Pro-rata support and co-termination dates
- Consultancy
- Detailed health check reports
- Site audits / surveys
- Data / platform migration
- IT decommissioning
- Data erasure
- Highly experienced and specially trained technical field engineers
- Spare parts kit on site
- Various methods for generating a fault ticket ticket
- Helpdesk assistance
- Operation and configuration assistance
- HiCommand Storage Services Manager
- Flexible short and long-term maintenance support contracts
- Hardware rental
- DMR (digital media retention)
- Operational savings
End of support Hitachi HDS Thunder 9500V, but not DC Parts
EOSL Dates 'End of Life Useful '
- THUNDER 9520V - JANUARY 2013
- THUNDER 9530V - JANUARY 2013
- THUNDER 9570V - JANUARY 2013
- THUNDER 9585V - JANUARY 2013
Hitachi Vantara HUS 100-150-VM Technical Specifications
Top Gun Technology offers Hitachi Vantara off-the-shelf additions to Hitachi Unified Storage systems. We carry unit shelves / boxes for the HUS 110, HUS 130, HUS 150 and HUS VM. If you intend to extend the life of your HUS system, please contact us for a maintenance quote. We can install the shelf addition and provide maintenance for your entire HUS environment.
| HUS Model | raw capacity | Supported Drives | Max Drives | Host Connections per Module | Drives | Expansion Trays Supported |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HUS110 | 360TB | LFF-NL-SAS; 10K SAS; 15K SAS; SSD | 120 SFF AND LFF | 8 FC; 8FC + 4iSCSI; 4 iSCSI | 10K SAS: 300GB, 600GB, 900GB; 15K SAS: 300GB; NL-SAS: 2TB, 3TB; SSD: 200GB 400GB | 2U LFF DBL (12 Dr); 2U SFF DBS (24 Dr) |
| HUS130 | 756TB | LFF-NL-SAS; 10K SAS; 15K SAS; SSD | 264 SFF AND 252 LFF | 16 FC; 8 FC; 8 FC + 4 iSCSI | 10K SAS: 300GB, 600GB, 900GB; 15K SAS: 300GB; NL-SAS: 2TB, 3TB; SSD: 200GB 400GB | 2U LFF DBL (12 Dr); 2U SFF DBS (24 Dr); 4U LFF DBX (48 Dr) |
| HUS150 | 2880TB | LFF-NL-SAS; 10K SAS; 15K SAS; SSD | 960 SFF AND LFF | 16 FC, 8 FC, 8 FC + 4 iSCSI; 8 iSCSI | 10K SAS: 300GB, 600GB, 900GB; 15K SAS: 300GB; NL-SAS: 2TB, 3TB; SSD: 200GB 400GB | 2U LFF DBL (12 Dr); 2U SFF DBS (24 Dr); 4U LFF DBX (48 Dr); 5U LFF DBW (84 Dr) |
| HUSVM | 3383TB | NL-SAS; 10K SAS; SSD; FLASH | 1,152 DRIVES (UP TO 128 SSD AND 96 FLASH DRIVES) | 2 to 8 FC 2/4/8GB I/O Modules | 10K SAS: 300GB, 600GB, 900GB, 1.2TB; NL-SAS: 3TB; SSD: 200GB, 400GB, 800GB; FLASH DRIVES: 1.6TB, 3.2TB | 2U-DBF (12 Flash Modules); 2U-LFF DBL (12 Dr); 2U-SFF DBS (24 Dr); 4U-LFF DBX (48 Dr) |
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Third party maintenance for Hitachi HDS End-of-Life (EOL) and Hitachi HDS End-of-Service-Life (EOSL)
A DC Parts made an analysis on more than 250 customer contracts that use storage, servers, networks and tapes and showed us that 40-60% of the equipment of these customers operate beyond the end dates of support.
There are simple options for you to reduce your expenses and feel more confident about your IT infrastructure. When you choose a custom solution to extend the life of your IT equipment, you can make big savings.
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We offer our customers a unique assessment to help analyze their OEM support contracts and understand exactly which devices can be supported in the most affordable way, without compromising their performance.
Hitachi HDS storage support
Support services DC Parts provide support for Hitachi HDS storage. We work to combine the right approach with the right equipment to meet your Hitachi HDS storage support needs.
With a highly trained team of certified engineers ready to solve any problems with Hitachi HDS storage, the DC Parts is uniquely qualified to serve you. If you would like to speak with a representative about purchasing Hitachi HDS storage media, please contact us.
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