VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

Chapter 1, Understanding ISP

Administration Roles in ISP

Expert Administration Tasks

Expert administration tasks include creating new attributes to describe storage features, and

designing and creating new templates and capabilities.

The storage administrator’s role requires the following knowledge of ISP:

◆ Knowledge of basic and advanced administration tasks, see “Basic Administration Tasks” on

page 17 and “Advanced Administration Tasks” on page 19.

◆ Familiarity with the ISP rule specification language, and how to use it to write rules,

capabilities and templates.

◆ How to use the VEA or the command-line utilities to perform your tasks. You can use any

suitable text editor to create template definition files. The command-line utilities are primarily

intended for use in administration scripts, but can also be used to compile and install templates

and capabilities as illustrated in “Creating Templates and Capabilities.”

Creating Templates and Capabilities

Advanced storage administration tasks are described in the following chapters:

◆ “Administering Volume Templates and Other Configuration Elements” on page 101

◆ “Using Capabilities, Templates and Rules” on page 113

◆ “ISP Language Definition” on page 137

Templates

vxtemplate

Use the vxtemplate command to

compile templates and capabilities, and

to install these in a disk group.

and capabilities

Template and

capability definitions

installed in

disk group