HP StorageWorks All-in-One SB600c Storage Blade - Manual (Page 12)

Table 2 Software support
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and 2007
See “ Using the Host an Exchange Storage Group
Wizard ” on page 20.
File sharing services on local storage
See “ Using the Create a Shared Folder
Wizard ” on page 21.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005
See “ Using the Host a SQL Server Database
Wizard ” on page 22.
User-defined applications
See “ Using the Host a User-Defined Application
Wizard ” on page 24.
Microsoft iSCSI Target and Data Protector Express are required to host application storage and create
backups using ASM. Microsoft iSCSI Target and Data Protector Express come preinstalled on your HP
All-in-One Storage System. A license key is not required for Microsoft iSCSI Target. Your license key for
Data Protector Express comes preinstalled on your HP All-in-One Storage System.
Storage management infrastructure
The purpose of ASM is to simplify storage management, so that you do not need to understand the
complexities of allocating and configuring storage, and hosting application storage on your HP All-in-One
Storage System. ASM handles two types of use models:
• Managing storage for application servers , page 12
• Managing storage for shared folders , page 13
Managing storage for application servers
With ASM, you can allocate, configure, and host storage for applications residing on servers that
host Exchange, SQL Server, and user-defined applications using the Host an Exchange Storage Group
Wizard, Host a SQL Server Database Wizard, and Host a User-Defined Application Wizard.
The wizards suggest a default storage size, plus default advanced configuration settings, such as RAID
level, for each application component. You can customize all the defaults to fit your storage needs.
However, the default advanced settings provided for Exchange and SQL Server are based on HP storage,
Exchange, and SQL Server best practices and should generally not be changed.
For application storage, ASM creates an iSCSI LUN on your HP All-in-One Storage System for each
storage group component, database component, or the user-defined application you select to host in the
storage-allocation wizard, and exports it to the application server whose storage will be hosted. ASM
also creates a LUN on your HP All-in-One Storage System to host the storage group component, database
component, or the user-defined application you selected in the storage-allocation wizard. All storage
communication passes through the iSCSI LUN on the application server to the LUN on your HP All-in-One
Storage System. This allows data saved by the application to the iSCSI LUN on the application server to
be automatically saved to your HP All-in-One Storage System instead (see Figure 1 ).
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