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Advanced administration tasks

Advanced administration tasks include administering storage pools and user templates, creating clone pools, and creating volumes with additionally specified rules.

The system administrator's role requires the following knowledge of ISP:

• Knowledge of basic administration tasks.

  See Basic administration tasks.

• Familiarity with the meaning of the terms LUN, attribute, policy, intent, and rules such as those for confining or excluding how storage is allocated to new volumes.
• How to create or modify user templates, and then associate these with disk groups and storage pools.
• How to use the VEA or the command-line utilities to perform your tasks.

As a storage administrator, you can use either the VEA or command-line utilities to perform your tasks.

The VEA interface is most suitable for day-to-day administration.

Figure 1-4 shows that the command-line utilities are primarily intended for use in administration scripts, but can also be used to compile and install user templates.

Creation of user templates

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Figure 1-5 illustrates that the vxpool command is used to create storage pools with associated policies, templates and capabilities.

Creation of storage pools

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System administration tasks are described in the following sections:

• About storage pools and ISP
• About creating user templates