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

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You can now create the volumes. The following command would use the
template to create a 20-gigabyte mirrored volume with 2 mirrors composed
of LUNs striped in hardware, and with the mirrors located on separate
enclosures:
# vxassist -g dstdg make silvervol 20g \
volume_template=’SilverStorage,\
MirrorsOnSeparateComponents’
If you are creating many volumes at the same time, or you may need to repeat
the procedure in the future, it is preferable to define the volumes to be created
as a volume group in a definitions file, and then use the vxassist -M make
command to read this and set up the volumes. Additional details are available.
See “Creating multiple volumes” on page 20.
See the Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning
Administrator’s Guide.
If you use the predefined templates rather than creating your own, you can
use the vxassist settag command to add the appropriate tier tag to each
volume as shown in this example:
# vxassist -g mydg settag silvervol tier=silver
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Use the vxvset command to add the individual volumes to a volume set. For
example, the following command creates a volume set, dst_vset, that contains
the volumes goldvol, silvervol and bronzevol:
# vxvset -g dstdg -t vxfs make dst_vset goldvol
# vxvset -g dstdg addvol dst_vset silvervol
# vxvset -g dstdg addvol dst_vset bronzevol
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You can now create a Veritas File System (VxFS) on the volume set, and apply
placement policies to the files in that file system. Additional details are
available.
See the Veritas File System Administrator’s Guide.
29Tiered storage solutions
Setting up tiered storage using ISP volumes