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Provision the Datastore

As a Service Provider, you can add storage to the available organizational units when you need more storage space in the environment.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to CA Service Catalog as a Service Administrator.
2. Click Requests,

   The available services list opens.

3. Click CA Automation Suite for Clouds, Server Automation Services.
4. Click Infrastructure Management under the VMware ESX Management menu.

   The Infrastructure Management page opens.

5. Click Provision Datastore.

   A list of configured vCenter Server Resource Pools for your organization opens.

6. Select a pool that needs more storage, then enter the name and size for the new datastore.
7. Click Fetch Available Storage Policies.

   A list of available policies with the price details based on the organization of the selected pool appears.

8. Select a policy.
9. Click Add to Cart to continue adding more requests to the cart.

   The request is added to the cart.

10. Click Check Out when you complete adding the requests.
11. Click Save and Submit Cart.

    A confirmation message appears indicating that your request was submitted.

    The price of the request is calculated based on the selected policy. A new datastore is created and the status of the request is changed to Pending SSRM Resource Pool Modification. The request is assigned to a Service Administrator (defined in the configuration) and an email is sent to the Service Provider.

    The Service Administrator modifies the pool manually and the status of the request is changed to Completed.

    A new datastore is created and attached to the computer resource of the selected pool.