VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

Chapter 8, Using Capabilities, Templates and Rules
Simplified Syntax for Rules on the Command Line
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Simplified Syntax for Rules on the Command Line
For convenience, rules may be expressed in the following simplified form on the command line for
the vxvoladm command:
rule_name=attribute_name[=value][,...]
The following examples of rule expressions:
confineto eachof("VendorName"="EMC","Room"="Room1","Building")
select anyof("Room"="Room1","Room"="Room2","Building")
exclude allof("VendorName"="EMC","VendorName"="Hitachi")
affinity "Enclosure"
separateby "Controller"
strong separateby "Spindles"
may be expressed by equivalent simplified rule expressions:
confineto=VendorName=EMC,Room=Room1,Building
select=Room=Room1,Room=Room2,Building
exclude=VendorName=EMC,VendorName=Hitachi
affinity=Enclosure
separateby=Controller
strong separateby=Spindles
The default storage selection rules are assumed, and cannot be substituted using the simplified form
of the rule syntax.