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

6 Contents
Creating a cache volume for space-optimized snapshots ..................... 47
Preparing a space-optimized snapshot .................................................... 47
Taking a space-optimized snapshot of an application volume ............ 47
Chapter 2 Storage pools
Reserving and unreserving disks for use with ISP ......................................... 49
Organizing storage pools in a disk group ........................................................ 50
Listing storage pool sets ............................................................................. 51
Displaying storage pool set definitions .................................................... 51
Creating a storage pool ....................................................................................... 52
Listing available storage pool definitions ................................................ 53
Displaying storage pool definitions .......................................................... 53
Using disk group split and join with storage pools ........................................ 54
Adding disks to a storage pool ........................................................................... 55
Removing disks from a storage pool ................................................................. 55
Associating templates with a storage pool ...................................................... 55
Associating template sets with a storage pool ................................................ 56
Dissociating templates from a storage pool .................................................... 56
Displaying information about storage pools ................................................... 57
Displaying storage pool policies ........................................................................ 57
Changing the policies on a storage pool ........................................................... 57
Listing storage pools within a disk group ........................................................ 58
Finding storage pool sets containing specified pool definitions .................. 58
Renaming a storage pool .................................................................................... 58
Deleting a storage pool ....................................................................................... 59
Chapter 3 Creating application volumes
Overview of the command line interface ......................................................... 61
Setting default values for ISP volumes .................................................... 62
Determining the maximum volume size .......................................................... 63
Creating volumes ................................................................................................. 64
Creating volumes by using vxassist specification attributes ............... 65
Creating volumes by specifying capabilities ........................................... 66
Creating volumes by specifying capabilities and rules .......................... 68
Creating volumes by specifying templates .............................................. 69
Creating volumes by specifying user templates ..................................... 70
Creating volumes with associated tags ............................................................ 71
Creating multiple volumes with the same prefix ........................................... 71
Creating multiple volumes as a volume group ................................................ 71
Creating a volume for use with snapshots and DRL ...................................... 73
Chapter 4 Administering application volumes