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

A user template is not directly associated with a storage pool. Its association is
implied by its reference to capabilities and templates.
About application volumes
An application volume is created by ISP, and then exported for use by an
application such as a database or file system. It is identical to a traditional volume
that you would create using vxassist and other VxVM commands, or via the VEA
GUI.
In this section, the term volume always means application volume unless it is
specified that a traditional VxVM volume is meant.
About volume intent
The intent of a volume is a conceptualization of its purpose as defined by its
characteristics and implemented by a template. ISP attempts to preserve the
intent of a volume whenever the volume is reconfigured, resized, or relocated.
Intent preservation automatically conserves capabilities such as reliability and
performance, and observes additional rules such as allocating storage based on
confinement and exclusion specifications.
Examples of using ISP from the command line
This section provides examples of using ISP from the command line and provides
pointers to where more information can be found.
You can also find summaries of the usage of commonly used commands.
See “About ISP commands” on page 219.
Further examples may be found in the manual page for each command.
See “About ISP examples” on page 225.
Creating a data storage pool
Assuming that you have created a disk group, mydg, that contains several disks
that you have initialized for use with VxVM, the following command creates a
data storage pool, mypool, containing several disks, which supports the creation
of striped-mirror volumes:
# vxpool -g mydg create mypool \
dm=mydg01,mydg02,mydg03,mydg04,mydg04,mydg06 \
pooldefinition=stripe_mirror_volumes
43Understanding ISP
Examples of using ISP from the command line