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

Volume creation solutions

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About volume creation solutions

■ Ensuring volume redundancy

■ Using storage attribute tags with volumes

■ Creating tagged volumes

■ Creating multiple volumes

■ Using user templates to simplify volume creation

About volume creation solutions

You can use the vxassist command to create ISP volumes. This chapter provides

an overview of the various ways in which you can use vxassist to create ISP

volumes for use by applications.

See the Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator’s

Guide for full details.

Ensuring volume redundancy

ISP automatically ensures that a volume retains its redundancy when it is resized

or if the disk array moves data across disks. It also ensures that volume mirrors

do not reside on the same physical disk while the volume is created or resized.

The following example command creates a 2-gigabyte mirrored volume with 2

mirrors, with the mirrors located on separate enclosures:

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