HP StorageWorks 1200r All-in-One Storage System - Manual (Page 57)

4 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 67
• Data protection , page 87
• Managing storage , page 97
• Monitoring storage , page 101
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, snapshots, and replication of
hosted application data and shared folders.
Other wizards are provided to help you set up Exchange Server storage, 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
Storage for application servers running on Windows Server 2003 with SP1 and Windows Server
2008 that are on the same domain as your HP All-in-One Storage System can be hosted. Windows
domain controllers (such as Windows Small Business Server) are supported by ASM as managed
application servers.
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