VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

Storage Selection Rule Operators
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Storage Selection Rule Operators
The following table lists the operators that are provided for combining the confineto,
exclude and select storage selection rules:
See the description of the individual selection rules for details of the applicability of these
operators.
Storage Layout Rules
The following sections describe storage layout rules:
◆ apply
◆ parity
◆ striped
See “Compound Rules” on page 131 for details of how to limit the scope of interpretation of rules
to the components of an application volume, such as its plexes, columns and logs.
apply
The apply rule is used to apply rules from one or more specified templates in addition to the rules
that appear in the current template. This rule acts recursively if the specified templates also use
apply in their rules sections. The capabilities of any referenced templates are not used.
Expressions involving apply can specify the eachof or oneof operator. The default operator for
this keyword is eachof.
Operator Description
allof Select available storage that matches the union of all the operands.
anyof Select available storage that matches any of the operands in the order that they are listed.
The first match is chosen.
eachof Select available storage that matches each of the operands.
noneof Do not select storage that matches any of the operands.
oneof Select available storage that matches one and only one of the operands. The first match is
chosen.