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

Understanding ISP
This chapter includes the following topics:
About Intelligent Storage Provisioning
The benefits of ISP
Frequently asked questions about ISP
Administration roles in ISP
Sample ISP deployments
About ISP concepts
Examples of using ISP from the command line
About Intelligent Storage Provisioning
Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) allows you to organize and manage your
physical storage by creating virtual storage devices, as application volumes. You
can use such volumes in the same way as traditional volumes in VeritasTM Volume
Manager (VxVM) by Symantec.
ISP creates application volumes from available storage with the capabilities you
specify. It selects storage by consulting the externally-defined rule base for creating
volumes, and compares this with the properties of the storage that is available.
ISP provides the following functionality:
Creation and removal of application volumes.
Organizing storage by grouping into storage pools.
Resizing a volume while it is online.
Moving or evacuating subdisks of a volume.
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