Tag: thin provisioning

If you aren't familiar with thin provisioning, it's a technology being widely adopted by storage vendors that only allocates back-end disk space to a LUN when data is written. For example, if you present a 500GB LUN to a server and only write 100GB of data, the array only uses...

One of the problems with modern disk arrays that support thin provisioning is that volumes tend to get fat over time, just like us Americans! Instead of putting yourself on a diet, you can put your storage array on a diet. Think you will need to haul your array to...