Choose type of application – HP X1800sb G2 Network Storage Blade User Manual
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server. Upon completion, you can monitor and manage storage for the application through the
Automated Storage Manager.
After storage is allocated and configured on your HP Storage System for a remote application
using the Host a User-Defined Application Wizard, do the following:
•
Manually migrate the remote application's data to your HP Storage System. See
user-defined application data from a remote application” (page 25)
for more information.
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Configure the remote application to store its data on the iSCSI LUN exported by ASM to the
application server as described in the application's documentation.
Before you begin configuring storage for a user-defined application
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Make sure the ASM agent is installed on each application server with data you plan to host.
•
Make sure you have a current backup of your remote application data and logs.
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For an iSCSI LUN application, you will need the iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN).
NOTE:
For a remote Windows application, you need to know the path to the iSCSI LUN on the
application server to configure the remote application to store data on the iSCSI LUN. The path to
the iSCSI LUN is displayed on the application's Properties window on the Storage tab.
To access the Host a User-Defined Application Wizard
1.
In the Actions pane, select Host a User-Defined Application.
The Host a User-Defined Application Wizard welcome page opens.
2.
Click Next to open the Choose type of Application page (see
).
Choose type of application
1.
Select the type of application for hosting a user-defined application:
•
Remote Windows Application: ASM will provision storage for the application and expose
the storage to the given server as an NTFS volume over the iSCSI protocol. This is the
recommended option for most scenarios. The Automated Storage Manager agent must
be installed on the application server to use this option.
•
iSCSI LUN: Exposes a LUN to the remote server so the server can store data on the LUN.
You will need to install an iSCSI initiator on your host server. Storage is provisioned for
these applications.
NOTE:
A valid iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN) is required to host a user-defined application
as an iSCSI LUN. IP addresses are not valid IQNs. If you enter a temporary IQN (such
as an IP address) in the iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN) field, you must manually configure
the iSCSI Target using the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target management console in order
for ASM to discover and assign the application server to the iSCSI LUN.
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Local storage only: Creates a volume on your HP Storage System. Storage is provisioned
for these applications.
2.
Click Next to open the Enter an Application Name page (see
“ Entering an application name”
).
When hosting a user-defined application as an iSCSI LUN, the volume presented is not automatically
initialized with NTFS and mounted. This is because the iSCSI LUN could be presented to a
non-Windows server. After completing the wizard, you must manually initialize and mount the
volume.
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Hosting storage for applications and shared folders