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

Figure 1-5 illustrates that the vxpool command is used to create storage pools
with associated policies, templates and capabilities.
Figure 1-5
Creation of storage pools
vxpool
Storage pool
Templates and
capabilities
Use the vxpool
command to create a
storage pool and to
associate templates,
capabilities and policies
with it.
Required policies
for storage pool
Templates,
capabilities and
policies
System administration tasks are described in the following sections:
About storage pools and ISP
About creating user templates
Expert administration tasks
Expert administration tasks include creating new attributes to describe storage
features, and designing and creating new templates and capabilities.
The storage administrators role requires the following knowledge of ISP:
Knowledge of basic and advanced administration tasks.
See Basic administration tasks on page 24.
See Advanced administration tasks on page 26.
Familiarity with the ISP rule specification language, and how to use it to write
rules, capabilities and templates.
How to use the VEA or the command-line utilities to perform your tasks. You
can use any suitable text editor to create template definition files.
27Understanding ISP
Administration roles in ISP