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

Figure 1-6 shows that the command-line utilities are primarily intended for use

in administration scripts, but can also be used to compile and install templates

and capabilities.

Figure 1-6

Creating templates and capabilities

Templates and

capabilities installed

in disk group

Use the vxtemplate command

to compile templates and

capabilities, and to install

these in a disk group.

Template and

capability

definitions

vxtemplate

Advanced storage administration tasks are described in the following sections:

■ About volume templates and configuration

■ About capabilities, templates and rules

■ About the ISP language

Sample ISP deployments

This section contains high-level examples of how you can configure volume

creation using ISP.

About storage pool policies

A storage pool’s policies affect how it allocates LUNs to create new volumes, and

how it uses templates.

See “About storage pool policies” on page 37.

By selecting which templates and LUNs are associated with a storage pool, and

setting appropriate policies on the storage pool, you can control how storage is

Understanding ISP

Sample ISP deployments