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

Figure 1-12
Scope levels for storage pool policies
Default scope of
SelfSufficient
policy for
templates
LUNS and Templates In a storage pool (level = pool)
LUNs and templates in a disk group (level = diskgroup)
Default
scope of
AutoGrow
policy for
LUNs
Templates
Templates
Templates
All available templates (level = host)
About capabilities
A capability is a feature that is provided by a volume. For example, a volume may
exhibit capabilities such as performance and reliability to various degrees. Each
type of capability is defined as a set of rules.
Table 1-1 shows some simple examples of capabilities that might be supported
by a storage pool.
Table 1-1
Storage pool capabilities
DescriptionAdjustable parametersCapability
Provides reliability by using
mirrored plexes.
nmirs — number of mirrors
(plexes)
DataMirroring
Provides reliability by using
RAID-5 parity.
ncols — minimum number of
columns
nmaxcols — maximum
number of columns
Raid5Capability
Understanding ISP
About ISP concepts
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