Creating and Administering Storage Pools

VERITAS Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) allows you to group storage with similar characteristics for creating volumes. A storage pool is a named collection of volumes and the LUNs with which they are associated.

The storage policies and rules that are associated with a storage pool determine its characteristics. Each storage pool represents a collection of volumes that are created according to these policies and rules. For example, a pool may be configured to allow allocation of LUNs from outside the pool, and to use only templates that are associated with the pool by specifying the appropriate autogrow and selfsufficient policies.

For more information on the rules that are supported for storage pools, refer to Rules.

This chapter describes how to use the vxpool utility to create and administer storage pools. For full information about this command, see the vxpool(1M) manual page.