Using Capabilities, Templates and Rules

VERITAS Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) provides a structured and flexible rule-based declarative language for expressing how an application volume with a given set of characteristics is to be configured from the available storage. The language can be used to specify rules for allocating storage to the individual parts of a volume, such as mirrors, columns, logs and snapshots, as well to as an entire volume.

See the following sections in this chapter for more information:

• Capabilities
• Volume Templates
• Rules
• Storage Selection Rules
• Storage Selection Rule Operators
• Storage Layout Rules
• Compound Rules
• Attribute Aliases
• Simplified Syntax for Rules on the Command Line

See ISP Language Definition for full details of the syntax of capabilities, rules and templates. Also see ISP Configuration Elements for details of the basic capabilities and templates that are provided for use.