VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

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Administering Volume Templates and
Other Configuration Elements
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The VERITAS Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) feature creates volumes with a set of rules or
capabilities. A volume template (or template for short) is a collection of rules that provide
capabilities. ISP refers to templates when creating a volume, and selects an appropriate set of
templates to use based on the requested capabilities.
ISP follows certain rules when selecting templates to match a requested set of capabilities. See
“Volume Templates” on page 116 for more details. For a list of the standard templates that are
provided by ISP, see “Volume Templates” on page 161.
The procedures in this chapter use the vxtemplate command. For full information about using
this command, see the vxtemplate(1M) manual page.
Installing Configuration Elements into the ISP Database
Storage pool, storage pool set, template set, template and capability definitions are referred to as
configuration elements. A standard set of configuration elements are included in the Configuration
Database that is installed with the ISP package (see “ISP Configuration Elements” on page 155).
These configuration elements cover a broad range of uses, and should be sufficient for most
applications. To make additional configuration elements available for use, they must be installed in
the Configuration Database.
To install additional elements that are defined in a file, use the following command:
# vxtemplate -C -d element_defs_file install
You can select only to install selected elements from a file by naming them explicitly as shown
here:
# vxtemplate -r -C -d my_templates install template=Reliability
The -r (recursive) option ensures that all capabilities and templates that are referred to by the
Reliability template are also installed.