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

9Introduction to ISP
Basic concepts in ISP
Figure 1-1 Traditional disk group in VxVM
ISP extends this model by allowing the installation to enforce volume
provisioning standards as defined in a set of templates. To create ISP volumes,
you need to set up a storage pool within a VxVM disk group and associate the
appropriate volume templates with the storage pool. This is illustrated in
Figure 1-2. The volume templates determine the types of ISP volumes that can
be created within the storage pool.
Figure 1-2 ISP volumes are created in a disk group that contains a storage pool
Disk group
Initialized disks
Disk group
Remaining unallocated initialized disks
Storage pool
Volume templates
Disks
ISP volumes Non-ISP
Disks
volumes