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

Table 1-2 shows examples of storage selection rules.
Table 1-2
Storage selection rules
DescriptionRule
Attempts to select storage with shared attributes.affinity
Restricts selection of storage by specifying attributes.confineto
Prevents storage with certain attributes from being selected.exclude
Specifies the storage to be used.select
Defines fault domains for objects such as plexes.separateby
Does not allow objects in different fault domains to share attributes.strong separateby
For example, the following rule specifies that any LUNs may be selected from the
named enclosures:
select "Enclosure"="ENC01", "Enclosure"="ENC02"
The following rule specifies that LUNs may be selected from the set of Hitachi
disks that are located in Room1:
confineto "VendorName"="HITACHI", "Room"="Room1"
The following example of a separation rule specifies that enclosures are to be
treated as individual fault domains:
separateby "Enclosure"
About storage layout rules
Storage layout rules specify how storage is used to create volumes.
Table 1-3 shows examples of storage layout rules.
Table 1-3
Storage layout rules
DescriptionRule
Specifies the type of log and its degree of redundancy.log
Specifies how many mirrors a volume should have.mirror
Specifies whether redundancy is provided by using parity.parity
Specifies how many columns a volume should have.stripe
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