VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

ISP Concepts
2 VERITAS Storage Foundation ISP Administrator’s Guide
This book describes the command-line interface to ISP, and the language that is used for writing
new rules, capabilities and templates. For a description of the graphical interface to ISP that is
provided by the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA), see the VERITAS Enterprise
Administrator Getting Started guide and VEA online help.
ISP Concepts
The figure, “Relationship Between Concepts in ISP,” illustrates the dependencies between the
various ISP components.
Relationship Between Concepts in ISP
Attributes
Storage Pool
Disk Group
Application
LUNs
Capabilities
Vo l u m e s
Configuration
Database
Vo l u m e
Templates
User Templates
Rules
LUN Policies
and Template
Policies
Capabilities
Vo l u m e
Templates
Intent
Rules
Vo l u m e
Templates