Advanced window items, Table 19 – HP StorageWorks 1200 All-in-One Storage System User Manual

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Table 19

provides a brief description of the items you can modify:

Table 19 Advanced window items

Notes

Description

Item

You are prevented from setting the
size below 15 MB.
After the allocated storage space is
full (100 percent used), no further

The amount of storage that ASM allocates to the
application component, user-defined application,
or shared folder you are configuring.

Size

data can be stored to the space
until you increase the size using the
Allocate Space Wizard. The only
exception is for shared folders and
local storage applications without
an enforced allocated limit. If there
is unused storage space on the
logical disk where a component
without an enforced allocated limit
resides, data can be written to the
component until the logical disk is
full.

For more information about RAID
levels, see

Customizing RAID

levels

on page 73.*

Hard drive formatting that provides different
levels of performance, capacity, and data
protection.

RAID Level

ASM provides the following general
values: small (8 kB), medium (16
kB), and large (64 kB).*

The number of bytes or kilobytes of data in each
RAID stripe (block of data). The RAID stripe size
selected affects performance. For the best
performance, select the stripe size closest to the
size of the files being saved.

RAID Stripe Size

The percent full warning threshold
is set by default to 80%. Percent full

The percent full value that when reached
changes the storage status to Warning and

Percent Full Warning
Threshold

warning threshold values are

issues a warning alert. The warning indicates

ASM-specific; percent full warning

that storage use has surpassed the percentage

threshold values selected in the

full value. For example, if you enter 75%, you
see a warning (yellow asterisk) in the content
pane when storage is at 75 percent full.

Quota Management MMC snap-in
are not adopted by ASM. All other
Quota Management MMC snap-in
settings are adopted by ASM. See

Setting a percent full warning
threshold

on page 74.

For Exchange and SQL Server,
ASM default values specify

Data is stored on hard drives dedicated to
storing only the data for the application

Exclusive Storage

exclusive storage for log files, which

component, user-defined application, or shared

according to storage best practices,
should be isolated from other
application storage areas.*

folder you are configuring. The number of hard
drives dedicated depends on the allocated
space size and other advanced storage
configuration settings selected for the item you
are configuring. Exclusive storage is
recommended for some applications for the
storage of specific types of data.

This item is available for shared
folders and local storage

Sets an enforced quota for the amount of storage
available to a shared folder or local storage

Enforce Allocated
Limit (Quota)

component. See

Enforcing an

Hosting storage for applications and shared folders

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