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

Using capabilities,

templates and rules

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About capabilities, templates and rules

■ Capabilities

■ Volume templates

■ Rules

■ Storage selection rules

■ Storage selection rule operators

■ Storage layout rules

■ Compound rules

■ Attribute aliases

■ Simplified syntax for rules on the command line

About capabilities, templates and rules

Veritas Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) provides a structured and flexible

rule-based declarative language for expressing how an application volume with

a given set of characteristics is to be configured from the available storage. The

language can be used to specify rules for allocating storage to the individual parts

of a volume, such as mirrors, columns, logs and snapshots, as well as to an entire

volume.

See “About the ISP language” on page 169.

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