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Storage Provisioning Features

As a System Administrator, you can provision storage in CA Server Automation for virtual and physical servers. To save time, you can create enhanced storage policies and associate them with managed servers. When servers need more space, you can select a different storage policy.

Storage provisioning is supported in Reservation Manager. You also can automate storage provisioning using CA Process Automation connectors.

The following table lists the supported storage vendors, protocols, servers, and features.

Storage Servers

Supported Protocols and Servers

Supported Provisioning Methods in User Interface

NetApp OnCommand
  • SAN-based iSCSI – VMware vCenter ESX, AIX LPAR Virtual I/O, physical and virtual servers (Windows, AIX, Linux, HPUX, Solaris)
  • SAN-based FCP – VMware vCenter ESX, Cisco UCS, physical and virtual servers (Linux)
  • NAS-based CIFS – physical and virtual servers
  • NAS-based NFS – physical, virtual, and VMware vCenter ESX
  • Enhanced storage policies
  • Storage services (NetApp Provisioning Manager)
  • Provisioning policy (NetApp Provisioning Manager)

 

EMC SMI-S
  • SAN-based iSCSI – VMware vCenter ESX, AIX LPAR Virtual I/O, physical and virtual servers (Windows, AIX, Linux, HPUX, Solaris)
  • SAN-based FCP – VMware vCenter ESX, Cisco UCS, physical, and virtual (Linux)
  • EMC SMI-S
  • Enhanced storage policies

 

For other storage tasks (discover, resize, move, deprovision), use the cadpmspm CLI.

Note: EMC SMI-S does not support the move option.