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expert storage analyst given the time and sufficient information. The goal is to give very good
advice by allowing VPA to consider the same factors that an administrator would in deciding
where to best allocate storage.
6.5.2 The provisioning challenge
You want to allocate a specific amount of storage to run a particular workload. You could be a
storage administrator interacting through a user interface, or the user could be another
system component (such as a SAN management product, file system, DataBase
Management System (DBMS), or logical volume manager) interacting with the VP