# What Provisioning Manager is

Provisioning Manager simplifies and automates the tasks of provisioning and managing storage for NAS and SAN access. It also improves efficiency in storage utilization.

The Provisioning Manager application provides the following capabilities:

- User-defined policies to automate storage provisioning and configure default settings for exporting storage

- Periodic conformance checking to ensure that the provisioned storage conforms to the provisioning policy

- Manual controls for resizing space and capacity of existing storage

- Manual controls for provisioning new and existing storage

Provisioning Manager can be accessed through NetApp Management Console.

Anyone using Provisioning Manager should be familiar with general storage provisioning concepts.