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You can use the vxassist command to create and manage ISP volumes provided that you have set up a storage pool in the disk group. ISP optimally assigns storage resources as defined and constrained by any parameter values, rules, capabilities and templates that you specify as arguments to the command. Capabilities provide the highest, most abstract way of specifying volumes. Rules provide the lowest, most direct means of specification. This gives you great freedom to create volumes that meet your requirements.
The vxassist command takes the following general form:
# vxassist [options] keyword volume [additional_arguments] \
[storage_specification] [attribute=value ...]
The keyword denotes the action that vxassist is to perform on the named volume. The storage specification defines the storage that can or cannot be used with an operation. This consists of a comma-separated list of disk media names and other storage attributes, such as Controller:controller_name to indicate all disks on a controller. Excluded storage is indicated by a ! prefix. Finally, attributes and their values can be used to specify further constraints on the operation.
Each invocation of vxassist is applied to only a single storage pool that has been configured within a disk group. The default disk group is that aliased by the setting of defaultdg. You can specify an alternate disk group by using the -g diskgroup option.
Refer to the vxassist(1M) manual page for full details on using the vxassist command.
The operations for ISP that use the vxassist command have an equivalent vxvoladm command, which is obtained by substituting vxvoladm for vxassist. Any other arguments to the command remain the same.