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

Contents
Chapter 1 Understanding ISP
The benefits of ISP ...............................................................................................16
Support for ISP in the vxassist command ................................................19
Summary of the benefits of using ISP ......................................................19
Limitations of ISP ........................................................................................20
Frequently asked questions about ISP .............................................................20
Administration roles in ISP ................................................................................22
Basic administration tasks .........................................................................22
Advanced administration tasks .................................................................25
Expert administration tasks .......................................................................27
Sample ISP deployments ....................................................................................28
Using storage pool policies .........................................................................28
Arranging storage by volume usage .........................................................31
Arranging storage by attributes ................................................................32
About ISP concepts ..............................................................................................33
About disk groups ........................................................................................34
About LUNs ...................................................................................................34
About attributes ...........................................................................................35
About storage pools .....................................................................................36
About storage pool sets ...............................................................................37
About storage pool policies ........................................................................37
About capabilities ........................................................................................40
About rules ....................................................................................................41
About volume templates .............................................................................42
About template sets .....................................................................................43
About user templates ..................................................................................43
About application volumes .........................................................................44
About volume intent ....................................................................................44
Examples of using ISP from the command line ..............................................45
Creating a data storage pool .......................................................................45
Adding disks to a storage pool ...................................................................45
Creating an application volume .................................................................45
Resizing an application volume .................................................................46
Creating a clone storage pool .....................................................................46
Preparing a full-sized snapshot volume ...................................................46
Taking a full-sized snapshot of an application volume .........................47