Automatic Disk Provisioning: The Real Story

摘要

Automatic storage provisioning is getting a lot of attention lately. It's not clear exactly how this is going to be accomplished in all storage environments, nor who will be involved in provisioning, but one thing is certain -there will be products of some sort. The market driver for automatic disk provisioning is the need to provide needed online disk capacity to users and applications from places where capacity isn't being used. This will increase efficiency of storage utilization and, if truly successful, will take place with a minimum of human involvement. If glowingly successful, it will be done inline with preset guidelines and in accordance with an intelligently defined policy. If even marginally successful, however, it will not require reboot of OS's or unmount and remount for file systems or reinitialization of applications.