Provisioning Storage

Once we have selected the appropriate storage type, we need to plan our provisioning. This means we will determine precisely how to get the storage available that we need. Does it start by answering some key questions. What data requires storage now that we know what the data is and the data format and structure? In other words, is it going to work with object store or file store like buckets, or do we need to store it in a block storage solution? How much data is there? How much space do we need in order to store the data? How sensitive is it? What kind of security are we going to have to implement? What policies relate to storing the data, and what regulations relate to storing the data? So we might have business rules, and there might be regulations that impose rules upon us, like storing personally identifiable information or PII. There are often regulations that control how and what we store.

Regarding provisioning, we have two concepts that we want to explore: thick and thin storage.

Thick storage allocates virtual storage at the time of the request. So let us say we determine we want terabytes of storage. ...