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

Creating application
volumes
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ About creating application volumes
■ Overview of the command line interface
■ Determining the maximum volume size
■ Creating volumes
■ Creating volumes with associated tags
■ Creating multiple volumes with the same prefix
■ Creating multiple volumes as a volume group
■ Creating a volume for use with snapshots and DRL
About creating application volumes
Volumes created by Veritas Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) are similar to
traditional non-ISP volumes that you create using the vxassist utility, but have
the advantage that their intent is preserved and cannot accidentally be degraded.
Volumes that are created by ISP can be managed by using commands such as
vxassist or vxvoladm, or by using the VEA client graphical user interface.
For information on using VEA to create volumes, refer to the VEA online help.
The vxassist command can be used to create ISP volumes.
To create application volumes successfully, the appropriate licenses must be
present on your system. For example, you need a full Veritas Volume Manager
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