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

Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4
Chapter 1 Understanding ISP .............................................................. 17
About Intelligent Storage Provisioning ............................................ 17
The benefits of ISP ....................................................................... 18
Support for ISP in the vxassist command .................................... 21
Summary of the benefits of using ISP ......................................... 21
Limitations of ISP .................................................................. 21
Frequently asked questions about ISP .............................................. 22
Administration roles in ISP ............................................................ 24
Basic administration tasks ....................................................... 24
Advanced administration tasks ................................................. 26
Expert administration tasks ..................................................... 27
Sample ISP deployments ............................................................... 28
About storage pool policies ...................................................... 28
About arranging storage by volume usage .................................. 30
About arranging storage by attributes ........................................ 31
About ISP concepts ....................................................................... 32
About disk groups .................................................................. 34
About LUNs .......................................................................... 34
About attributes .................................................................... 34
About storage pools ................................................................ 35
About storage pool sets ........................................................... 36
About storage pool policies ...................................................... 37
About capabilities .................................................................. 38
About rules ........................................................................... 39
About volume templates .......................................................... 41
About template sets ................................................................ 42
About user templates .............................................................. 42
About application volumes ....................................................... 43
About volume intent ............................................................... 43
Examples of using ISP from the command line .................................. 43
Creating a data storage pool ..................................................... 43
Adding the disks to a storage pool ............................................. 44
Creating an application volume ................................................ 44
Resizing an application volume ................................................ 44
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