
August, 2004 Storage for Server Blades 21
Automatic provisioning of storage
• The ultimate goal
− Automatically configured storage
• Driven by QoS and other attributes
− Management Server recognizes
application workload requirement
• Management Server dynamically
presents appropriate LUNs to blade
• Manual intervention is
significantly reduced
− Plug components in
− Set provisioning policies
− All done through a single
management interface
PXE Server
SAN
Boot Services
Storage
Provisioning
Storage Management
Applications
Blade Servers
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