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

18 Understanding ISP
The benefits of ISP
available storage is potentially unlimited, and the set of rules that the allocation
engine uses to choose storage is defined externally to commands such as
vxassist and vxvoladm.
Figure 1-2 How ISP enhances volume management
Storage
Application volumes
User-specified rules
and capabilities
VxVM’s knowledge of storage
attributes is potentially unlimited.
You can define additional
attributes that are to be used
when selecting storage.
Application volumes with the
required capabilities are built
within the storage pool
according to pre-defined and
user-specified rules and
templates.
The vxassist or vxvoladm
commands use the allocation
engine to select available
storage from the storage pool
when creating and
administering application
volumes.
vxassist
Storage pool within a disk group
Attributes,
templates,
capabilities
and policies
pool
or vxvoladm