| 摘要 |
A provisioning apparatus operable with a virtualisation layer in a server, for provisioning a storage volume associated with a physical storage device to a virtual server in a storage area network, the provisioning apparatus comprising: a discovery component for transmitting a request to the virtual server to identify one or more storage volumes; a receiving component for receiving a first unique identifier associated with the or each located storage volume from the virtual server; a comparing component for determining from configuration data associated with the or each located storage volume a second unique identifier associated with the each of the located storage volumes; and a comparing component for comparing the or each first unique identifier received from the virtual server with the or each of the second unique identifier associated with the configuration data to find a matching identifier. |
