Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning 5.0.1 Administrators Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009
Advanced administration tasks
Advanced administration tasks include administering storage pools and user
templates, creating clone pools, and creating volumes with additionally specified
rules.
The system administrator’s role requires the following knowledge of ISP:
■ Knowledge of basic administration tasks.
See “Basic administration tasks” on page 24.
■ Familiarity with the meaning of the terms LUN, attribute, policy, intent, and
rules such as those for confining or excluding how storage is allocated to new
volumes.
■ How to create or modify user templates, and then associate these with disk
groups and storage pools.
■ How to use the VEA or the command-line utilities to perform your tasks.
As a storage administrator, you can use either the VEA or command-line utilities
to perform your tasks.
The VEA interface is most suitable for day-to-day administration.
Figure 1-4 shows that the command-line utilities are primarily intended for use
in administration scripts, but can also be used to compile and install user
templates.
Figure 1-4
Creation of user templates
User templates
installed in disk
group
Use the vxusertemplate
command to compile user
templates, and to install user
templates in a disk group.
User template
definition
vxusertemplate
Understanding ISP
Administration roles in ISP
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