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

See the vaxassist(1M) manual page.
Creating example volumes
Use the following command to create a 10 GB concatenated volume:
# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g
Use the following command to create a 2-way mirrored volume using rules:
# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g rules='mirror 2'
Use the following command to create a 7-column striped volume using rules:
# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g rules='stripe 7'
Use the following command to create a 2-way mirrored volume using the
DataMirroring capability:
# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g \
capability='DataMirroring(nmirs=2)'
Use the following command to create a 2-way mirrored volume with each mirror
on a separate enclosure:
# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g \
capability='DataMirroring(nmirs=2),\
MirrorsOnSeparateComponents(component="Enclosure")'
Use the following command to create a 2-way mirrored volume that is enabled
for the creation of instant snapshots:
# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g \
capability='DataMirroring(nmirs=2), InstantSnapshottable'
Use the following command to create a volume using only disks from enclosure
e1:
# vxassist -g exdg -P expool vol1 10g \
rules='confineto "Enclosure"="e1"'
or alternatively:
# vxassist -g exdg -P expool make vol1 10g \
capability='ConfineToSpecificStorage(name="Enclosure",\
value="e1")'
Use the following command to create a volume using disks on the same controller:
Examples of using ISP
Creating example volumes
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