HP StorageWorks 9000s HP OpenView Capacity Management for StorageWorks NAS Ser - Page 7

Overview In particular, the Storage Builder application provides capacity monitoring, management, and reporting features that you can enable for specified HP NAS devices by following the instructions in "Installing the host agent on the NAS server" on page 8. More information on Storage Area Manager is available on the SAM website at: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/sam/index.html. About the HP StorageWorks NAS family Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers are specialized file-serving devices that provide high-capacity support for heterogeneous files. A NAS solution provides network-accessible storage to clients and servers running different operating systems. HP offers a full range of NAS solutions that satisfy storage needs in diverse environments, from large enterprises to small and medium businesses. All HP StorageWorks NAS solutions provide scalability, continuous data availability, and high-performance block and file serving. The HP StorageWorks NAS b3000 is an entry point to NAS/SAN configurations, providing enterprise-level availability with clustered no-single-point-of-failure solutions, scalability up to 48 TB with embedded switches, and excellent performance for heterogeneous computing environments. The HP StorageWorks NAS e7000 delivers performance, scalability, and availability by providing a gateway to the enterprise SAN for file level data. The NAS e7000 connects to the industry's broadest range of SAN arrays, fusing NAS and SAN for the enterprise. The NAS 9000s and 4000s provide higher levels of storage management, data protection, performance, and print services. These models are based on the Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 operating system, which features quota management and file screening. The HP StorageWorks NAS 9000s delivers NAS storage with multi-protocol file support and storage management for the enterprise environment. It provides simple, rapidly deployable, and flexible storage that can be managed remotely. NAS 9000s features include Volume Shadow Copy Service for data protection and Microsoft Quota for storage usage control. The HP StorageWorks NAS 4000s provides storage management benefits similar to the NAS 9000s, but for workgroups and regional offices. For more information, refer to the NAS product documents at http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/networkattached.html. The rest of this document describes how to join NAS and Storage Area Manager functionality to manage capacity in NAS server configurations. Capacity Management for StorageWorks NAS Servers Application Notes 7