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

If a rule is marked as desired, the output indicates whether the rule was obeyed
or not.
The vxassist printintent command displays the capabilities, volume templates
and rules that were specified when a volume was created. The vxassist
printrules command displays the final set of rules that were obtained by
precessing the specified capabilities, volume templates and rules. This final set
of rules is what is used to allocate storage to a volume when it is created.
New volumes that are created using the output from running the vxassist
printrules command on an existing volume are allocated storage in exactly the
same way as for that volume. If you use the output from the vxassist printintent
command to create new volumes, the rule set is regenerated from the capabilities
and templates. This may give a different result while still preserving the intent
of the volume as advertised by the capabilities and templates.
Migrating non-ISP volumes to ISP volumes
To make non-ISP volumes that you previously created into volumes that are
manageable by ISP, you can use the following form of the vxassist command:
# vxassist [-g diskgroup] [-P storage_pool] [-I rules] \
migrate volume ...
Volumes to be migrated must be CDS-compliant and have an alignment value of
8 K.
The volumes to be migrated from a disk group may be specified on the command
line, or in a definitions file that is read from the standard input if the -M option
is specified.
The following example shows the command definition:
# vxassist [-g diskgroup] -M migrate
This definition has the following syntax:
diskgroup "dgname"
volume "volumename1" {
pool "pool_name1"
rules { volume1_rules }
};
volume "volumename2" {
pool "pool_name2"
rules { volume2_rules }
};
93Administering application volumes
Migrating non-ISP volumes to ISP volumes