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

About storage pools
Figure 1-1 illustrates a traditional disk group containing disks that have been
initialized for VxVM use.
You can create volumes from the disks in this disk group by using the vxassist
command or the graphical user interface.
Figure 1-1
Traditional disk group in VxVM
Disk group
Initialized disks
ISP extends this model by allowing the installation to enforce volume provisioning
standards as defined in a set of templates. To create ISP volumes, you need to set
up a storage pool within a VxVM disk group and associate the appropriate volume
templates with the storage pool.
Figure 1-2 illustrates how to set up a storage pool and associate volume templates.
The volume templates determine the types of ISP volumes that can be created
within the storage pool.
11Introduction to ISP
Basic concepts in ISP