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

27Understanding ISP
Administration roles in ISP
Expert administration tasks
Expert administration tasks include creating new attributes to describe storage
features, and designing and creating new templates and capabilities.
The storage administrator’s role requires the following knowledge of ISP:
■ Knowledge of basic and advanced administration tasks.
See “Basic administration tasks” on page 22.
See “Advanced administration tasks” on page 25.
■ Familiarity with the ISP rule specification language, and how to use it to
write rules, capabilities and templates.
■ How to use the VEA or the command-line utilities to perform your tasks. You
can use any suitable text editor to create template definition files. The
command-line utilities are primarily intended for use in administration
scripts, but can also be used to compile and install templates and
capabilities as illustrated in Figure 1-6.
Figure 1-6 Creating templates and capabilities
Tem p l a t es
Use the vxtemplate command to compile
templates and capabilities, and to install
these in a disk group.
and capabilities
Template and
capability definitions
installed in
disk group
vxtemplate