When I first populated the box, I did a "thin provisioning" and created a 16 TB Storage Space, despite only having 4 x 2 TB = 8 TB of "pool space," configured as a "two way mirror" (yeah ...

Rather than pre-allocate storage that sits empty until it is used, thin provisioning lets network administrators over-allocate capacity without actually reserving physical storage. Thin ...

Thin provisioning was initially introduced at the storage level. However, recently VMware and Hyper V introduced thin provisioning at the Hypervisor level. Storage virtual provisioning gives an ...

Thin provisioning provides a way to address these limitations. By automatically allocating system capacity to applications as needed, thin provisioning technology can help achieve up to 90% ...

Thin provisioning allows a storage administrator to allocate more capacity to specific applications or users than is physically available under the assumption that not all those applications and ...

EqualLogic added thin provisioning, which improves utilization and scalability while helping IT shops reduce their total storage costs. Thin provisioning is a method of storage resource management ...

Lets say you setup thin-provisioning on a LUN (LUN A) and initially it's sized to 100GB but only uses 10GB (assume the data is being written in a contiguous matter), then another LUN (LUN B ...

Simply adding new storage when a disk filled up was a laborious process. That changed when the college installed a Compellent storage area network with thin provisioning technology. Recovery from a ...