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

151Using capabilities, templates and rules

Storage selection rule operators

The following table lists the operators that are provided for combining the

confineto, exclude and select storage selection rules:

See the description of the individual selection rules for details of the

applicability of these operators.

Storage layout rules

The following sections describe storage layout rules:

■ apply

■ parity

■ striped

You can limit the scope of interpretation of rules to the components of an

application volume, such as its plexes, columns and logs.

See “Compound rules” on page 154.

apply

The apply rule is used to apply rules from one or more specified templates in

addition to the rules that appear in the current template. This rule acts

recursively if the specified templates also use apply in their rules sections. The

capabilities of any referenced templates are not used.

Expressions involving apply can specify the

eachof or oneof operator. The

default operator for this keyword is

eachof.

Operator Description

allof Select available storage that matches the union of all the operands.

anyof Select available storage that matches any of the operands in the order

that they are listed. The first match is chosen.

eachof Select available storage that matches each of the operands.

noneof Do not select storage that matches any of the operands.

oneof Select available storage that matches one and only one of the operands.

The first match is chosen.