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About creating application volumes

Volumes created by Veritas Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) are similar to traditional non-ISP volumes that you create using the vxassist utility, but have the advantage that their intent is preserved and cannot accidentally be degraded. Volumes that are created by ISP can be managed by using commands such as vxassist or vxvoladm, or by using the VEA client graphical user interface.

For information on using VEA to create volumes, refer to the VEA online help.

The vxassist command can be used to create ISP volumes.

To create application volumes successfully, the appropriate licenses must be present on your system. For example, you need a full Veritas Volume Manager license and a Veritas FlashSnapTM or FastResync license to use the instant snapshot feature. Vendors of disk arrays may also provide capabilities that require special licenses for certain features of their hardware.