HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition SRM Software - Manual (Page 23)

User Guide 9
The following diagram shows the relationships between physical storage devices and their usage on
Windows systems.
Figure 6 Relationship between physical storage devices on different operating systems
Operating system disk management utilities lets you combine or subdivide the physical devices into
custom-sized file systems, each with a specific mount point on the host.To successfully move physical
resources between systems, without impacting other application, it is important to make sure that the
physical drives and all associated objects belong only to the SAP instance identified by the SRID.