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

Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to ISP
Basic concepts in ISP ............................................................................................. 8
About storage pools ....................................................................................... 8
About templates, capabilities and rules ...................................................11
About user templates ..................................................................................12
About adding new ISP configuration elements .......................................12
Solutions using ISP ..............................................................................................12
Chapter 2 Volume creation solutions
Ensuring volume redundancy ............................................................................13
Using hardware mirroring with volumes .................................................14
Using storage attribute tags with volumes ......................................................14
Creating tagged volumes ....................................................................................15
Creating multiple volumes .................................................................................15
Using user templates to simplify volume creation .........................................16
Chapter 3 Tiered storage solutions
Policies for storage tiers .....................................................................................20
Setting up tiered storage using ISP volumes ...................................................23
Chapter 4 Off-host processing solutions
Implementing off-host processing solutions ..................................................26
Implementing off-host online backup ......................................................28
Implementing decision support .................................................................30
Chapter 5 Remote mirror solutions
About Remote Mirror configurations ...............................................................33
Setting up site-consistent ISP volumes ....................................................35
Making an existing disk group site consistent ........................................37
Glossary 39
Index 43