VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Intelligent Storage Provisioning Administrator's Guide

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Creating and Modifying User Templates
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When using VERITAS Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) to create an application volume with
a specified set of capabilities, you can usually enter values for the parameters that modify these
capabilities. For example, you can select the degree of redundancy, fault tolerance, or performance
that you require from the volume. For convenience in creating volumes, you can set up user
templates to store commonly used sets of capabilities and parameter values. You can then specify
the name of a user template instead of the name of a capability when using the vxvoladm
command to create an application volume.
Format of User Templates
A user template consists of a list of capabilities and rules. Associated with each capability is a list
of parameter-value pairs that define default parameter values for the capability. The format of a
typical user template specification is shown here:
user_template usertmplt_tname {
description "string"
descriptionid id
volume_templates template1, template2 ...
capability capability1 {
attribute_name:type = default_value
...
}
capability capability2 {
attribute_name = default_value
...
}
...
rules {
rule1
rule2
...
}
};
This definition has the following important components: