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Using Capabilities, Templates and Rules

VERITAS Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) provides a structured and flexible rule-based

declarative language for expressing how an application volume with a given set of characteristics is

to be configured from the available storage. The language can be used to specify rules for allocating

storage to the individual parts of a volume, such as mirrors, columns, logs and snapshots, as well to

as an entire volume.

See the following sections in this chapter for more information:

◆ Capabilities

◆ Volume Templates

◆ Rules

◆ Storage Selection Rules

◆ Storage Selection Rule Operators

◆ Storage Layout Rules

◆ Compound Rules

◆ Attribute Aliases

◆ Simplified Syntax for Rules on the Command Line

See “ISP Language Definition” on page 137 for full details of the syntax of capabilities, rules and

templates. Also see “ISP Configuration Elements” on page 155 for details of the basic capabilities

and templates that are provided for use.