HP X1000 Network Storage Systems - Manual (Page 7)

1 Automated Storage Manager
HP StorageWorks X1000 Automated Storage Manager (ASM) is a storage hosting and management
tool that radically simplifies:
• Hosting storage for applications and shared folders , page 13
• Data protection , page 33
• Managing storage , page 43
• Monitoring storage , page 47
ASM provides storage-allocation wizards that walk you through the process of allocating and
configuring storage on your HP 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, HP Storage System
Management applications, Microsoft iSCSI Target, and Data Protector Express. For example, you can
change your HP Storage System's:
• Storage allocations (quotas), shared folder permissions and names, and snapshot schedules using
ASM, Windows administrator tools, and the HP 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 Storage System or file directories created by ASM on application servers with storage
hosted on your HP Storage System. Doing so will break the iSCSI communication paths between your
application servers and HP Storage System, and make it so ASM can no longer locate allocated
storage areas on your HP Storage System.
Software requirements
ASM comes preinstalled on your HP 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 Storage System can be hosted. Windows domain
controllers (such as Windows Small Business Server) are supported by ASM as managed application
servers.
ASM provides storage-management services for the following applications:
Table 1 Storage support on ASM
See “ Using the Host an Exchange Storage Group
Wizard ” on page 14.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 with SP1 or later
and Exchange Server 2007
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