Supports management of tiered storage environments where both SAS and SATA hard drives are
attached to externally-attached HP D2000 enclosures.
You can use ASM to specify a dedicated, primary network--plus a secondary subnet--for your IP-
based storage traffic
Disaster recovery tools work in concert with backup applications to preserve storage subsystem
settings in case they need restored after a system rebuild
Provides end-to-end management and provisioning of iSCSI storage for non-clustered 32-bit and
64-bit Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 hosts (including derivatives like
Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008) from the iSCSI
Target all the way through to the host
Provides management and provisioning of iSCSI storage for standards-compliant non-Windows
iSCSI initiators such as VMWare, Linux, etc.
Application data hosting and migration wizard using HP and Microsoft 'Best Practice' storage
provisioning for Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007 Storage Groups and Microsoft SQL Server
2000/2005/2008
*
databases (
*SQL Server 2008 support requires installation of "SQL Server 2005
Backward Compatibility" option; file stream functionality not supported
).
Application-level capacity provisioning and online growth for shares, SQL Server and Exchange. SQL
Server support includes data file and log directory provisioning and Exchange support includes
Mailstore, Publicstore and log directory provisioning.
Application data hosting and iSCSI Setup wizard for other 'User Defined' Application (Oracle, mySQL,
VMware ESX, etc…)
Data protection policy assignment (snapshots, backup) integrated into application migration and
share creation wizards for data hosted on the system. (Requires HP Data Protector Express
Software)
Data Protector Express Virtual Library (D2D) device provisioning and space management as well as
support for Data Protector Express D2D2Any add-on option. (Requires HP Data Protector Express
Software)
ASM agents now support domain servers (including Windows Server 2008, Small Business Server
2003 and Small Business Server 2008) as application host machines
HP ASM Agent Application & OS Support Matrix
Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 SP1
Microsoft Windows
Small Business
Server 2003
Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 and
2008 R2
Microsoft Windows
Essential Business
Server 2008
Microsoft Exchange
2003 SP1
o o
Microsoft Exchange
2007
o
*
o
*
o
*
o
*
Microsoft SQL
Server 2000 SP4
o o
Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 SP2
o o o o
Microsoft SQL
Server 2008
o
**
o
**
o
**
o
**
* Exchange 2007 is only supported on 64-bit Operating Systems
** SQL Server 2008 support requires installation of "SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility" option; file
stream functionality not supported
HP ASM Feature Support Matrix
QuickSpecs
HP X1000 G2 Network Storage Systems
Standard Features
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