7. The method of claim 2 , wherein the parameters that specify provisioning operation requirements for the provisioning target include an application identifier identifying an application and lower and upper bounds of a storage utilization of the application, and wherein generating the text string conforming to the provisioning target fact template includes obtaining the application identifier, the lower bound, and the upper bound.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein producing the set of facts further includes: generating, as a fact of the set of facts, a text string conforming to the provisioning target fact template.