Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning 5.0 AdministratorÆs Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

Chapter
6
Administering volume
templates and other
configuration elements
The Veritas Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) feature creates volumes with
a set of rules or capabilities. A volume template (or template for short) is a
collection of rules that provide capabilities. ISP refers to templates when
creating a volume, and selects an appropriate set of templates to use based on
the requested capabilities.
ISP follows certain rules when selecting templates to match a requested set of
capabilities.
See “Volume templates” on page 140.
The procedures in this chapter use the
vxtemplate command. For full
information about using this command, see the vxtemplate(1M) manual page.
Installing configuration elements in the ISP
database
Storage pool, storage pool set, template set, template and capability definitions
are referred to as configuration elements. A standard set of configuration
elements are included in the Configuration Database that is installed with the
ISP package.
These configuration elements cover a broad range of uses, and should be
sufficient for most applications. To make additional configuration elements
available for use, they must be installed in the ISP Configuration Database.