About storage provisioning

Last published : Jul 06, 2026
Storage provisioning is the process of assigning storage, usually in the form of server disk drive space to optimize the performance of a storage area network (SAN). The storage template is an efficient way to quickly create storage based on the configurations that are mentioned in the template. This mechanism lets you specify storage attributes and conditions, and the template can be used by the storage operators to allocate storage. It ensures that the allocated storage contains attributes mentioned in the template, and it adheres to the conditions that are specified in the template.
InfoScale Operations Manager storage provisioning lets you create storage templates from existing virtual storage devices such as volumes and file systems. It extracts all the properties of the virtual storage device, and recreates the entire stack. The supported file systems are VxFS and NTFS.
With InfoScale Operations Manager storage provisioning, you determine the virtual device characteristics of the storage object using the file system, volume manager, and operating system utilities and can create a storage template based on this information. A storage template lets you migrate existing virtual devices to new ones with different properties. For example, you can migrate volumes from thick LUNs to thin LUNs.
You can use the Management Server console to create storage templates and provision storage.
You can also use the InfoScale Operations Manager Web services API version 6.1 or later to provision storage using a storage template that you previously created.
For information on using the InfoScale Operations Manager Web services API, refer to the InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server User Guide.
For information on the InfoScale Operations Manager versions that the add-on is compatible with, refer to the InfoScale Operations Manager Hardware and Software Compatibility List (HSCL).
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