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

Indicates the nature of the volume that can be created by the
template, for example, DataMirroring, Raid5Volume and
InstantSnapshottable.
template_name
Indicates that the template includes all the capabilities, rules and
variables from the named templates.
See “extends” on page 150.
extends
Indicates that the template can inherit capabilities when required
from those listed.
See “inherits” on page 151.
inherits
Indicates the capabilities that are provided by volumes created
from the template.
See “provides” on page 151.
provides
Indicates that the template can acquire rules when required from
other templates that provide the specified capabilities.
See “requires” on page 152.
requires
Describes a template in English.description
References the message catalog where localized versions of the
description may be found, and provides an index number for the
description in the catalog.
descriptionid
Specifies the start of the section that contains the rules for
selecting and laying out storage, and which implement the
capabilities that the template provides. The rules usually operate
on the values that were specified for the arguments of the
requested capabilities.
See “Rules” on page 153.
See “Compound rules” on page 162.
rules
Specifies an optional default tag for a volume.tag
The following sections describe the keywords in detail:
■ extends
■ inherits
■ provides
■ requires
See “Volume template object” on page 173.
149Using capabilities, templates and rules
Volume templates