Provisioning is the process of preparing, creating, or setting up a resource and making it available for use. This resource can be a virtual machine or a server in generic terms.
Red Hat CloudForms can provision virtual machines (also called as instances in the cloud terminology) and hosts (otherwise called servers).
Virtual machines are provisioned from templates. The provisioning type (or where to provision from) varies from provider to provider.
The provisioning types supported on VMware are:
NetApp
VMware
PXE
The provisioning sources supported on a Red Hat infrastructure are:
ISO
PXE
Native clone