Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning 5.0 Solutions Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

12 Introduction to ISP
Solutions using ISP
capability creates a volume with 2 mirrors by default, and has a parameter,
nmirs, that you can use to specify a different number of mirrors.
In addition to specifying the capabilities of a volume, templates can include
storage selection rules that specify how to select the appropriate storage, and
storage layout rules that define how volumes are to be created.
About user templates
A user template is a list of capabilities and rules that you can use to create
similar volumes whenever required. You create user templates either by editing
them directly or by using the GUIs, and then add them to the ISP configuration
database by using the
vxusertemplate create command.
About adding new ISP configuration elements
The ISP language allows you to define new volume templates, storage pool
definitions and capabilities. It may help to use the definitions that are provided
in the /etc/vx/alloc/configuration_database.txt file as a model.
After saving the new definitions in a file, you can use the
vxtemplate install
command to add them to the ISP configuration database.
For full details, see the Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage
Provisioning Administrator’s Guide.
Solutions using ISP
The following chapters contain details of how to use ISP to deploy solutions for
different real-world scenarios.
■ Volume creation solutions describes some simple cases of how using ISP
volumes enhances storage usage.
■ Tiered storage solutions describes how to create storage tiers from ISP
volumes to make the best use of the available storage.
■ Off-host processing solutions describes how to move ISP volume snapshots
to a different host for independent processing.
■ Remote mirror solutions describes how to use the Remote Mirror feature
with ISP volumes to protect against site failure.