VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

Preface

The VERITAS Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator’s Guide provides

information on how to use the VERITAS Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) feature of the

VERITAS Storage Foundation

software.

The purpose of this guide is to introduce the concepts of ISP, and to describe how ISP enhances the

usability of VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) by making the best use of the available storage,

and by preserving the reliability and performance capabilities of application volumes throughout

their lifetime. This guide also includes descriptions of the standard sets of storage pool, template

and capability definitions that are provided for use with ISP.

This guide is intended for system administrators responsible for installing, configuring, and

maintaining systems under the control of VxVM.

This guide assumes that you have a:

◆ Basic knowledge of the HP-UX operating system.

◆ Basic understanding of HP-UX system administration.

◆ Basic understanding of storage management using VxVM.

Note Most VERITAS Volume Manager commands require superuser or other appropriate

privileges.