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

Creating a clone storage pool .................................................... 45
Preparing a full-sized snapshot volume ...................................... 45
Taking a full-sized snapshot of an application volume .................. 45
Creating a cache volume for space-optimized snapshots ................ 46
Preparing a space-optimized snapshot ....................................... 46
Taking a space-optimized snapshot of an application
volume ........................................................................... 46
Chapter 2 Storage pools ....................................................................... 47
About storage pools and ISP ........................................................... 48
Reserving and unreserving disks for use with ISP ............................... 48
Organizing storage pools in a disk group .......................................... 49
Listing storage pool sets .......................................................... 50
Displaying storage pool set definitions ....................................... 50
Creating a storage pool .................................................................. 51
Listing available storage pool definitions .................................... 52
Displaying storage pool definitions ........................................... 52
Using disk group split and join with storage pools .............................. 53
Adding disks to a storage pool ........................................................ 54
Removing disks from a storage pool ................................................ 54
Associating templates with a storage pool ......................................... 55
Associating template sets with a storage pool .................................... 55
Dissociating templates from a storage pool ....................................... 56
Displaying information about storage pools ...................................... 56
Displaying storage pool policies ...................................................... 57
Changing the policies on a storage pool ............................................ 57
Listing storage pools within a disk group .......................................... 57
Finding storage pool sets containing specified pool definitions ............. 58
Renaming a storage pool ............................................................... 58
Deleting a storage pool .................................................................. 58
Chapter 3 Creating application volumes ........................................... 61
About creating application volumes ................................................. 61
Overview of the command line interface ........................................... 62
Setting default values for ISP volumes ....................................... 62
Determining the maximum volume size ........................................... 63
Creating volumes ......................................................................... 64
Creating volumes by using vxassist specification attributes ........... 65
Creating volumes by specifying capabilities ................................ 67
Creating volumes by specifying capabilities and rules ................... 69
Creating volumes by specifying templates .................................. 70
Creating volumes by specifying user templates ............................ 72
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