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

25Understanding ISP
Administration roles in ISP
Advanced administration tasks
Advanced administration tasks include administering storage pools and user
templates, creating clone pools, and creating volumes with additionally
specified rules.
The system administrator’s role requires the following knowledge of ISP:
■ Knowledge of basic administration tasks.
See “Basic administration tasks” on page 22.
■ Familiarity with the meaning of the terms LUN, attribute, policy, intent, and
rules such as those for confining or excluding how storage is allocated to
new volumes.
■ How to create or modify user templates, and then associate these with disk
groups and storage pools.
■ How to use the VEA or the command-line utilities to perform your tasks.
As a storage administrator, you can use either the VEA or command-line utilities
to perform your tasks.
The VEA interface is most suitable for day-to-day administration. As illustrated
in Figure 1-4, the command-line utilities are primarily intended for use in
administration scripts, but can also be used to compile and install user
templates.
Figure 1-4 Creation of user templates
User templates
Use the vxusertemplate command to
compile user templates, and to install
user templates in a disk group.
installed in
User template
definition
disk group
vxusertemplate