1. An apparatus comprising: a storage medium; a network interface configured to communicatively couple the apparatus to a network; and a storage element communicatively coupled to the storage medium and the network interface and configured to receive, via the network interface, a request for a partition allocation, the request including a name; to create and allocate a partition of the storage medium based at least in part on the request; to obtain, from a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server, an internet protocol (IP) address for the partition of the storage medium; and to associate the name with the IP address.