Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning 5.0.1 Administrators Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

About volume templates and configuration
The Veritas Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) feature creates volumes with
a set of rules or capabilities. A volume template (or template for short) is a
collection of rules that provide capabilities. ISP refers to templates when creating
a volume, and selects an appropriate set of templates to use based on the requested
capabilities.
ISP follows certain rules when selecting templates to match a requested set of
capabilities.
See Volume templates on page 148.
These procedures use the vxtemplate command. For full information about using
this command, see the vxtemplate(1M) manual page.
Installing configuration elements in the ISP database
Storage pool, storage pool set, template set, template and capability definitions
are referred to as configuration elements. A standard set of configuration elements
are included in the Configuration Database that is installed with the ISP package.
These configuration elements cover a broad range of uses, and should be sufficient
for most applications. To make additional configuration elements available for
use, they must be installed in the ISP Configuration Database.
To install additional elements that are defined in a file, use the following command:
# vxtemplate -C -d element_defs_file install
You can select only to install selected elements from a file by naming them
explicitly as shown in the following command:
# vxtemplate -r -C -d my_templates install template=Reliability
The -r (recursive) option ensures that all capabilities and templates that are
referred to by the Reliability template are also installed.
See About ISP configuration elements on page 187.
Installing configuration elements in storage pools
and disk groups
If you specify a template set, storage pool definition or a storage pool set definition
when creating a storage pool, the required templates and capabilities are
automatically associated with the storage pool and with its disk group.
Administering volume templates and other configuration elements
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