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Introducing Storage Provisioner
22 OpenView Storage Provisioner User Guide
■ Service Levels – Storage attributes that define the level of requirements for all
storage systems within the service level.
■ Storage Systems – HSG-based storage systems and HSV-based storage
systems.
■ Customers – The owners of hosts and applications on the hosts, and the users
that pay storage providers for storage used.
■ Quota – The limit placed on a customer’s storage usage and connectivity into
a utility.
Storage Consumers manage:
■ Hosts – Application servers that use storage presented by the storage systems.
■ Paths – The defined connection from one host to one storage utility that
specifies the set of host bus adapters (HBA) that make the connection.
■ Volumes – The collection of raw storage blocks on a storage system that
contains data.
Additionally, storage providers can view and manage storage consumers’ hosts,
paths, and volumes.