Ops Center Automator provisioning templates automate the provisioning of newly added volumes and existing volumes. The provisioning templates provide the intelligence based on industry best practices to target resources and select volumes to improve storage load balancing. Pools are selected based on the storage profiles and infrastructure groups assigned to the service.
The provisioning templates are designed to provide the following features:
- Automate the provisioning tasks across multiple storage systems to reduce the amount of time to configure each provisioning request manually.
- Run provisioning services immediately or at a scheduled date and time.
- Assign provisioning services to specific users and service groups so users can run services independently of an administrator.
- Customization to meet specific functional needs and storage needs.
Ops Center Automator has the following provisioning service templates that creates volumes and allocates them to the specified hosts. You can locate the templates and services that are created by these templates by using the Add New Storage tag and the tag of the host type.
- Allocate Volumes with Configuration Manager
- Allocates sets of volumes from the associated infrastructure group through Ops Center API Configuration Manager for use with servers running a generic application.
- Allocate Fabric Aware Volumes with Configuration Manager
- Allocates sets of volumes from the associated infrastructure group through
Ops Center API Configuration Manager for use with servers running a generic application.
This service can optionally configure zoning of the allocated paths and you
can view new and modified zoning information such as the following:
- General zone information
- Zone alias information
- Zone configuration information
- Allocate Volumes with Smart Provisioning
- Intelligently allocates sets of volumes from the associated infrastructure
group through Ops Center API Configuration Manager for use with servers running a generic
application. This service can optionally configure zoning of the allocated
paths and you can view new and modified zoning information such as the
following:
- General zone information
- Zone alias information
- Zone configuration information
- Allocate Volumes with 2DC Remote Replication
- Intelligently allocates sets of volumes from the associated infrastructure
group through Ops Center API Configuration Manager for use with servers running a generic
application and creates a new topology for remote replication. This service
can optionally configure zoning of the allocated paths and you can view new
and modified zoning information such as the following:
- General zone information
- Zone alias information
- Zone configuration information
- Allocate Volumes with Remote Replication (Global-Active Device)
- Allocates sets of volumes with in-system replication (global-active device) from
the associated infrastructure group through Ops Center API Configuration Manager for use with servers running a generic application.
This service can optionally configure zoning of the allocated paths and you
can view new and modified zoning information such as the following:
- General zone information
- Zone alias information
- Zone configuration information