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

Introduction to ISP

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About Intelligent Storage Provisioning

■ Basic concepts in ISP

■ Solutions using ISP

About Intelligent Storage Provisioning

Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) is a feature of Veritas Storage Foundation™

that provides new approaches to virtualizing network storage. ISP allows

application volumes to be created from the available storage that adhere to a set

of specified criteria. Using ISP simplifies and standardizes storage provisioning,

allows the redundancy and performance characteristics to be preserved over time,

and helps to eliminate human error when allocating storage to volumes.

This solutions guide is one in a series from Symantec. Solution guides present

products in a real-world context, and provide concise guidelines for

commonly-performed procedures. This solutions guide describes scenarios where

ISP can be used to enforce installation standards and to simplify common storage

provisioning tasks.

A larger companion book, which is provided as part of the documentation set that

is included with the Storage Foundation product, serves as a comprehensive

reference to ISP concepts, operations, administration and the ISP specification

language.

See the Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator’s

Guide

Together these books offer a comprehensive approach to understanding the

complexity and power of ISP as applied to storage management.

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