Provisioning storage

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

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.