VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

Chapter 1, Understanding ISP
Sample ISP Deployments
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“Effect of Setting Non-Default Storage Pool Policies” illustrates how setting the AutoGrow policy
to diskgroup allows LUNs from the same disk group that are outside the storage pool to be used,
and setting the SelfSufficient policy to host allows templates that provide the required
capabilities to be imported from outside the storage pool or disk group.
Effect of Setting Non-Default Storage Pool Policies
Note Setting the storage pool policies away from their default values may not be desirable if you
want to maintain close control over how a storage pool is used.
Storage Pool
Disk Group
Templates
Application Volumes
Policies:
AutoGrow = diskgroup
SelfSufficient = host
LUNs outside
the storage pool
Templates
Templates
Other templates
in the disk group
can be used
Templates outside
the disk group
can be used
LUNs outside
the disk group
cannot be used
can be used