HP StorageWorks All-in-One SB600c Storage Blade - Manual (Page 11)

1 Overview
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 19
• Configuring data protection , page 37
• Managing storage , page 41
• Monitoring storage , page 47
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 2 Software support
See “ Using the Host an Exchange Storage Group
Wizard ” on page 20.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and 2007
See “ Using the Create a Shared Folder Wizard ” on page 21. File sharing services on local storage
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