1. A method comprising: identifying storage allocations for a target machine; assigning alias information to the target machine identifying the target machine to a storage area network; accessing, using a processor, a storage specification associated with the storage area network using the alias information to provision storage resources to the target machine; updating an assignment of storage resources of the storage area network associated with the target machine in view of the storage specification; distributing, using the processor, an operating system software to host on the target machine in view of a provisioning profile comprising instructions to cause the target machine to format the storage resources using the storage specification that specifies a data transfer rate of a communication interface for the storage resources; and responsive to formatting the storage resources in view of the provisioning profile, updating, using the processor, the storage allocations for the target machine to reflect an identifier of a newly available resource.