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Chapter 1 Understanding ISP
About Intelligent Storage Provisioning
Frequently asked questions about ISP
Chapter 2 Storage pools
Reserving and unreserving disks for use with ISP
Organizing storage pools in a disk group
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
Chapter 3 Creating application volumes
About creating application volumes
Overview of the command line interface
Determining the maximum volume size
Creating volumes by using vxassist specification attributes
Creating volumes by specifying capabilities
Creating volumes by specifying capabilities and rules
Creating volumes with associated tags
Creating multiple volumes with the same prefix
Chapter 4 Administering application volumes
About administration of application volumes
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
Preparing a volume for DRL and snapshot operations
Performing online relayout on a volume
Transforming the capabilities of a volume online
Removing mirrors from a volume
Removing columns from a volume
Changing the stripe unit size of volumes
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
Chapter 5 Administering instant snapshots
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
Preparing to create instant and break-off snapshots
Creating and managing space-optimized instant snapshots
Creating and managing full-sized 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
Splitting an instant snapshot hierarchy
Chapter 6 Administering volume templates and other configuration elements
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
Finding templates for specified capabilities
Listing capability dependencies
Listing templates included by template sets
Finding template sets containing specified templates
Chapter 7 Creating and modifying user templates
Using a user template to create an application volume
Listing currently defined user templates
Chapter 8 Using capabilities, templates and rules
Appendix A ISP language definition
Appendix B Changing the allocation behavior of ISP
Appendix C ISP configuration elements
Appendix D Volume group definition syntax
Appendix E Equivalences between vxassist attributes and ISP rules
Appendix F Command summary
Appendix G Examples of using ISP
Appendix H Configuring ISP to work with SAL