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Enhanced Storage Policies

An enhanced storage policy is a policy you define for use with the CA Server Automation Storage Provisioning Manager. Creating and using enhanced storage policies lets you perform the following tasks:

• Reuse Storage Provisioning Manager parameters

  The Storage Provisioning Manager requires you to supply parameters each time you provision storage using the storage service or provisioning policy methods. Using enhanced storage policies lets you create a set of predefined parameters you can quickly apply during storage provisioning.

• Automate storage provisioning tasks at the enterprise level

  Storage vendors provide policies for managing storage, but these policies are not server aware, making it difficult to automate provisioning at the enterprise level. CA Server Automation enhanced storage policies combine storage operating environment information with IT infrastructure information about servers and services to provide protocol-based policies that are server aware.

• Distribute storage provisioning tasks to nontechnical members of your organization

  Enhanced storage policies let you create policies that mask the complexity of storage provisioning then distribute storage provisioning tasks to nontechnical personnel.