VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

Chapter 1, Understanding ISP
Administration Roles in ISP
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Advanced Administration Tasks
Advanced administration tasks include administering storage pools and user templates, creating
clone pools, and creating volumes with additionally specified rules.
The system administrator’s role requires the following knowledge of ISP:
◆ Knowledge of basic administration tasks, see “Basic Administration Tasks” on page 17.
◆ Familiarity with the meaning of the terms LUN, attribute, policy, intent, and rules such as those
for confining or excluding how storage is allocated to new volumes.
◆ How to create or modify user templates, and then associate these with disk groups and storage
pools.
◆ How to use the VEA or the command-line utilities to perform your tasks.
As a storage administrator, you can use either the VEA or command-line utilities to perform your
tasks. The VEA interface is most suitable for day-to-day administration. The command-line
utilities are primarily intended for use in administration scripts, but can also be used to compile and
install user templates as illustrated in “Creation of User Templates.”
Creation of User Templates
User templates
vxtemplate
Use the vxusertemplate command to
compile user templates. Use the
vxtemplate command to install user
templates in a disk group.
vxusertemplate
Installed in
User template
definition
disk group