HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System user guide (440583-005, February 2008)

All-in-One Storage Manager
HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage Manager (ASM) is a storage hosting and management tool that
radically simplifies:
• Hosting storage for applications and shared folders, page 61
• Data protection, page 81
• Managing storage, page 89
• Monitoring storage, page 93
ASM provides storage-allocation wizards that walk you through the process of allocating and
configuring storage on your HP All-in-One Storage System to host application data and shared folders.
The storage-allocation wizards also allow you to schedule backups and snapshots of hosted application
data and shared folders.
Other wizards are provided to help you set up SQL Server database storage, storage for user-defined
applications, and storage for shared folders.
ASM is designed to work seamlessly with Windows administrator tools, the HP All-in-One Storage
System Management application, Microsoft iSCSI Target, and Data Protector Express. For example,
you can change your HP All-in-One Storage System's:
• Storage allocations (quotas), shared folder permissions and names, and snapshot schedules using
ASM, Windows administrator tools, and the HP All-in-One Storage System Management
applications.
• Media rotation type using ASM and Data Protector Express.
However, you should not use Windows administrator tools to change the paths to storage configured
on your HP All-in-One Storage System or file directories created by ASM on application servers with
storage hosted on your HP All-in-One Storage System. Doing so will break the iSCSI communication
paths between your application servers and HP All-in-One Storage System, and make it so ASM can
no longer locate allocated storage areas on your HP All-in-One Storage System.
Software requirements
ASM comes preinstalled on your HP All-in-One Storage System. A license key is not required for ASM.
Software support
Only storage for application servers running on Windows Server 2003 and on the same domain as
your HP All-in-One Storage System can be hosted.
ASM provides storage-management services for the following applications:
Table 15 Software support
See “Using the Host an Exchange Storage Group
Wizard” on page 62.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and 2007
See “Using the Create a Shared Folder Wizard” on page 64.File sharing services on local storage
See “Using the Host a SQL Server Database
Wizard” on page 65.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005
See “Using the Host a User-Defined Application
Wizard” on page 67.
User-defined applications
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