You are deploying a new vApp which needs specific storage capabilities. In the past, you manually assigned your datastores to a service level such as "Tier 1 FC", "Tier 2 SAS", etc." Your storage…

You are deploying a new vApp which needs specific storage capabilities. In the past, you manually assigned your datastores to a service level such as "Tier 1 FC", "Tier 2 SAS", etc." Your storage infrastructure has grown very large and it has become tedious and error prone manually identifying the various storage types and capabilities. Which technology helps eliminate a lot of the manual work involved in keeping your storage information up to date within your cloud?