Instruction Manual

Table Of Contents

Contents

About this guide ................................................................................. 11

Intended audience .................................................................................................................... 11

Related documentation .............................................................................................................. 11

Document conventions and symbols ............................................................................................. 11

Rack stability ............................................................................................................................ 12

HP technical support ................................................................................................................. 13

Customer self repair .................................................................................................................. 13

Product warranties .................................................................................................................... 13

Subscription service .................................................................................................................. 13

HP websites ............................................................................................................................. 13

Documentation feedback ........................................................................................................... 14

1 Storage management overview .......................................................... 15

Storage management elements ................................................................................................... 15

Storage management example ............................................................................................. 15

Physical storage elements .................................................................................................... 16

Arrays ........................................................................................................................ 17

Fault tolerance ............................................................................................................. 18

Online spares ............................................................................................................. 18

Logical storage elements ..................................................................................................... 18

Logical drives (LUNs) .................................................................................................... 18

Partitions .................................................................................................................... 19

Volumes ..................................................................................................................... 19

File system elements ............................................................................................................20

File sharing elements .......................................................................................................... 20

Volume Shadow Copy Service overview ................................................................................ 20

Using storage elements ....................................................................................................... 21

Clustered server elements .................................................................................................... 21

Network adapter teaming .......................................................................................................... 21

Management tools .................................................................................................................... 21

HP Systems Insight Manager ................................................................................................ 21

Management Agents .......................................................................................................... 22

2 File server management .................................................................... 23

File services features in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 ............................................................ 23

Storage Manager for SANs ................................................................................................. 23

Single Instance Storage ....................................................................................................... 23

File Server Resource Manager .............................................................................................. 23

Windows SharePoint Services .............................................................................................. 24

HP Storage Server Management Console .............................................................................. 24

File services management .......................................................................................................... 24

Configurable and pre-configured storage .............................................................................. 25

Storage management utilities ............................................................................................... 25

Array management utilities ............................................................................................ 25

HP ProLiant SB460c SAN Gateway Storage Server 3