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

Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4
Chapter 1 Introduction to ISP ............................................................... 9
About Intelligent Storage Provisioning .............................................. 9
Basic concepts in ISP .................................................................... 10
About storage pools ................................................................ 11
About templates, capabilities and rules ...................................... 14
About user templates .............................................................. 15
About adding new ISP configuration elements ............................. 15
Solutions using ISP ....................................................................... 15
Chapter 2 Volume creation solutions ................................................ 17
About volume creation solutions ..................................................... 17
Ensuring volume redundancy ......................................................... 17
Using hardware mirroring with volumes .................................... 18
Using storage attribute tags with volumes ........................................ 18
Creating tagged volumes ............................................................... 19
Creating multiple volumes ............................................................. 20
Using user templates to simplify volume creation .............................. 20
Chapter 3 Tiered storage solutions .................................................... 23
About tiered storage solutions ........................................................ 23
Policies for storage tiers ................................................................ 25
Setting up tiered storage using ISP volumes ...................................... 27
Chapter 4 Off-host processing solutions .......................................... 31
About off-host processing solutions ................................................. 31
Implementing off-host processing solutions ...................................... 32
Implementing off-host online backup ........................................ 34
Implementing decision support ................................................ 37
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