Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide 5.0 MP3 - AIX
| Article:DOC3080 | | | Created: 2010-09-24 | | | Updated: 2010-09-24 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC3080 |
Description
About Intelligent Storage Provisioning
The benefits of ISP
Support for ISP in the vxassist command
Summary of the benefits of using ISP
Limitations of ISP
Frequently asked questions about ISP
Administration roles in ISP
Basic administration tasks
Advanced administration tasks
Expert administration tasks
Sample ISP deployments
About storage pool policies
About arranging storage by volume usage
About arranging storage by attributes
About ISP concepts
About disk groups
About LUNs
About attributes
About storage pools
About storage pool sets
About storage pool policies
About capabilities
About rules
About volume templates
About template sets
About user templates
About application volumes
About volume intent
Examples of using ISP from the command line
Creating a data storage pool
Adding the disks to a storage pool
Creating an application volume
Resizing an application volume
Creating a clone storage pool
Preparing a full-sized snapshot volume
Taking a full-sized snapshot of an application volume
Creating a cache volume for space-optimized snapshots
Preparing a space-optimized snapshot
Taking a space-optimized snapshot of an application volume
About storage pools and ISP
Reserving and unreserving disks for use with ISP
Organizing storage pools in a disk group
Listing storage pool sets
Displaying storage pool set definitions
Creating a storage pool
Listing available storage pool definitions
Displaying storage pool definitions
Using disk group split and join with storage pools
Adding disks to a storage pool
Removing disks from a storage pool
Associating templates with a storage pool
Associating template sets with a storage pool
Dissociating templates from a storage pool
Displaying information about storage pools
Displaying storage pool policies
Changing the policies on a storage pool
Listing storage pools within a disk group
Finding storage pool sets containing specified pool definitions
Renaming a storage pool
Deleting a storage pool
About creating application volumes
Overview of the command line interface
Setting default values for ISP volumes
Determining the maximum volume size
Creating volumes
Creating volumes by using vxassist specification attributes
Creating volumes by specifying capabilities
Creating volumes by specifying capabilities and rules
Creating volumes by specifying templates
Creating volumes by specifying user templates
Creating volumes with associated tags
Creating multiple volumes with the same prefix
Creating multiple volumes as a volume group
Creating a volume for use with snapshots and DRL
About administration of application volumes
Resizing volumes online
Determining the maximum size of a volume
Increasing the size of a volume to a specified length
Increasing the size of a volume by a specified amount
Reducing the size of a volume to a specified length
Reducing the size of a volume by a specified amount
Growing and shrinking multiple volumes
Setting tags on volumes
Preparing a volume for DRL and snapshot operations
Removing support for DRL and snapshots from a volume
Evacuating a volume
Removing a volume
Performing online relayout on a volume
Transforming the capabilities of a volume online
Adding mirrors to a volume
Removing mirrors from a volume
Adding columns to a volume
Removing columns from a volume
Changing the stripe unit size of volumes
Adding logs to a volume
Removing logs from a volume
Monitoring and controlling ISP tasks
Reversing volume transformations
Finding volumes that use specified capabilities or templates
Verifying the intent of a volume
Displaying the rules associated with volumes
Migrating non-ISP volumes to ISP volumes
Migrating ISP volumes to non-ISP volumes
About administration of instant snapshots
Limitations of volume snapshots
Preparing storage pools for full-sized instant snapshots
Creating a volume for use as a full-sized instant or linked break-off snapshot
Creating a shared cache volume and preparing space-optimized snapshots
Creating a cache volume and preparing the space-optimized volumes
Creating a cache volume and preparing the space-optimized volumes in a single operation
Tuning the autogrow attributes
Growing and shrinking a cache
Removing a cache
Creating instant snapshots
Preparing to create instant and break-off snapshots
Creating and managing space-optimized instant snapshots
Creating and managing full-sized instant snapshots
Managing instant snapshots
Creating and managing linked break-off snapshot volumes
Creating multiple instant snapshots
Removing a linked break-off snapshot volume
Adding a snapshot to a cascaded snapshot hierarchy
Refreshing an instant snapshot
Attaching plexes of an instant snapshot
Reattaching a linked break-off snapshot volume
Restoring a volume from an instant snapshot
Dissociating an instant snapshot
Removing an instant snapshot
Splitting an instant snapshot hierarchy
Displaying instant snapshot information
Controlling instant snapshot synchronization
About volume templates and configuration
Installing configuration elements in the ISP database
Installing configuration elements in storage pools and disk groups
Listing and printing configuration elements
Deactivating and reactivating templates
Renaming a capability
Renaming a template
Finding templates for specified capabilities
Listing template dependencies
Listing capability dependencies
Listing template sets
Listing templates included by template sets
Finding template sets containing specified templates
Listing templates included by storage pool definitions
Removing templates, capabilities and template sets
About creating user templates
Format of user templates
Creating user templates
Using a user template to create an application volume
Listing currently defined user templates
Printing user template definitions
Deleting user templates
About capabilities, templates and rules
Capabilities
Inheritance of capabilities
Volume templates
extends
inherits
provides
requires
Rules
Storage selection rules
affinity
confineto
exclude
multipath
select
separateby
strong separateby
Storage selection rule operators
Storage layout rules
apply
parity
striped
Compound rules
mirror
mirror_group
stripe
log
Attribute aliases
Simplified syntax for rules on the command line
About the ISP language
Syntax conventions
Reserved keywords
Capability object
string_list
variable_list
variable
Volume template object
template_rules
confineto_expr
exclude_expr
multipath_expr
select_expr
operator
pref_order
User template
capabilities_expr
parameter_list
value_expr
Storage pool object
Template set object
Storage pool set object
st_pool_list
Volume group object
vg_rules
vg_rule
confineto_expr
exclude_expr
select_expr
multipath_expr
operator
pref_order
About ISP allocation behavior
About ISP configuration elements
Template set
ConfineVolume
DataMirroring
DataMirroringPrefabricatedRaid5
DataMirroringPrefabricatedStriping
DataMirrorStripe
DataStripeMirror
InstantSnapshottable
MultipathingThroughMirroring
MultipathingThroughMultiplePaths
PrefabricatedDataMirroring
PrefabricatedRaid5
PrefabricatedStriping
Raid5Templates
Striping
StripingPrefabricatedDataMirroring
Volume template
ArrayProductId
ColumnsOnSeparateComponents
ConcatVolumes
ConfineColumnsToSimilarStorage
ConfineLogsToSimilarStorage
ConfineMirrorsToSimilarStorage
ConfineToSimilarStorage
ConfineToSpecificStorage
DataMirroring
DataMirrorStripe
DataStripeMirror
DCOLogMirroring
DCOLogStriping
ExcludeSpecificStorage
InstantSnapshottable
LogsOnSeparateComponents
MirrorsOnSeparateComponents
MultipathingThroughMirroring
MultipathingThroughMultiplePaths
PrefabricatedDataMirroring
PrefabricatedRaid5
PrefabricatedStriping
Raid5LogStriping
Raid5Volume
Striping
Capability
ArrayProductId
ColumnsOnSeparateComponents
ConcatVolumes
ConfineColumnsToSimilarStorage
ConfineLogsToSimilarStorage
ConfineMirrorsToSimilarStorage
ConfineToSimilarStorage
ConfineToSpecificStorage
DataMirroring
DataMirrorStripe
DataRedundancy
DataStripeMirror
DCOLogMirroring
DCOLogStriping
ExcludeSpecificStorage
InstantSnapshottable
LogsOnSeparateComponents
MirrorsOnSeparateComponents
Multipathing
MultipathingThroughMultiplePaths
PrefabricatedDataMirroring
PrefabricatedDataRedundancy
PrefabricatedRaid5
PrefabricatedStriping
Raid5Capability
Raid5LogMirroring
Raid5LogStriping
Snapshottable
Striping
Storage pool
any_volume_type
mirror_stripe_volumes
mirrored_prefab_raid5_volumes
mirrored_prefab_striped_volumes
mirrored_volumes
prefab_mirrored_volumes
prefab_raid5_volumes
prefab_striped_volumes
raid5_volumes
stripe_mirror_volumes
striped_prefab_mirrored_volumes
striped_volumes
Storage pool set
mirrored_data_striped_clones
mirrored_prefab_raid5_data_mirrored_clones
mirrored_prefab_stripe_data_striped_clones
prefab_mirrored_data_prefab_striped_clones
stripe_mirrored_data_striped_clones
striped_prefab_mirrored_data_striped_clones
About the syntax of volume group definition
About vxassist and ISP rules
About ISP commands
Creating and administering application volumes
Creating and administering storage pools
About ISP examples
Creating example volumes
Resizing a volume
Adding or removing mirrors
Adding or removing columns
Adding or removing logs
Evacuating data from a volume
Segregating database components
About ISP and the SAN Access Layer
Enabling ISP to work with SAL
Configuring root as a SAL user
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