In the private cloud, this changes to the process shown in Figure 9.2.
Figure 9.2 Provisioning process when using private cloud
The resources used are the same, but the order of the steps and method has changed:
1 . The IT team uses their management tool to carve out clouds of resources, which
include compute, storage, and network resources, and it assigns clouds to users or
groups of users with certain quotas. This is all done before any users request
resources, and it is the only time that the IT team has to do any work in this
process, freeing them up to spend their time on more forward-looking endeavors.