Provisioning storage

You can assign storage to servers, hypervisors, and clusters on servers and hypervisors in the GUI.

About this task

Discontinued support: Provisioning is no longer supported in IBM Spectrum Control. While the feature might still work in this release, it's recommended that you use another tool for your provisioning needs, when possible. For a complete list of discontinued features, see Discontinued features in IBM Spectrum Control.
You can also assign the following types of storage to servers, hypervisors, and clusters on servers and hypervisors:
  • Volumes
  • NAS file shares

When you assign storage, you must associate the storage with a service class. You can associate the storage with a default service class such as gold, silver, or bronze, or you can create a user-defined service class. You can also create capacity pools to restrict the provisioning of storage to a defined set of storage resources such as pools on a storage system in a particular location.