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Table 1-4
Example templates (continued)
Adjustable parameters for the
capability
Provides capabilitiesTemplate
ncols — minimum number of
columns
nmaxcols — maximum number
of columns
StripingStriping
See “Volume template” on page 191.
About template sets
A template set consists of related capabilities and templates that have been
collected together for convenience. Associating a template set with a storage pool
is equivalent to associating each of its member templates separately with the
storage pool.
See “Template set” on page 188.
About user templates
A user template (or user-defined template) defines an arbitrary collection of
capabilities, templates and rules to which you want volumes of a certain type to
conform. For example, you might want all volumes that you create to store database
tables to share the same reliability and performance capabilities, and also that
they only be allocated from a restricted set of storage.
It is useful to create user templates if you regularly create volumes with similar
capabilities.
Table 1-5 shows some examples of user templates that might be created.
Table 1-5
Example user templates
DescriptionUser template
Provides a reliable high-performance volume that is suitable for use
by a database table.
OracleTable
Provides an extremely high-performance volume that is suitable for
a database index.
OracleIndex
As for templates, each user template can have a number of adjustable parameters
that you can use for tuning the characteristics of the created volumes.
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