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

As a system administrator, you can use either the VEA or the vxassist and
vxvoladm utilities to perform your tasks. The VEA graphical interface is most
suitable for day-to-day administration. The vxassist and vxvoladm utilities are
primarily intended for use in administration scripts.
Figure 1-3 shows the use of the vxassist or vxvoladm command to create
application volumes.
Figure 1-3
Creation of application volumes
Storage
pool
Required capabilities
Application volumes
Storage pool
Templates and
capabilities
vxassist or
vxvoladm
System administration tasks are described in the following sections:
About creating application volumes
About administration of application volumes
About administration of instant snapshots
25Understanding ISP
Administration roles in ISP