Provisioning Manager provides you with automated policy-based provisioning for NetApp storage systems. You can provision your entire SAN and NAS infrastructure from a single console.
Provisioning Manager speeds the creation of new NetApp storage resources and improves capacity management of existing storage resources. Storage administrators can utilize Provisioning Manager’s policy-based automation to create repeatable, automated provisioning processes. These processes are faster than doing the job by hand, easier to maintain than scripts, and help minimize the risk of data loss due to misconfigured storage.
The use of a centralized management console allows administrators to monitor and manage all their NetApp SAN and NAS storage resources. Provisioning Manager provides an at-a-glance dashboard for monitoring a variety of metrics, including capacity utilization, policy compliance, and space management statistics.
Provisioning Manager uses user-defined policies to guide selection of the appropriate resources for each provisioning activity. This frees administrators from the headache of searching for available space to provision, freeing up time for more strategic issues.
Provisioning Manager is a key component of the NetApp Manageability Software family. For more information on Provisioning Manager please refer to the Provisioning Manager data sheet.
Key Points:
- Policy-based automation provisions storage faster than manual provisioning and reduces the risk of operator error
- Policy-based space management improves capacity utilization
