You can use an external read only device as an origin for a thinly-provisioned volume. Any read to an unprovisioned area of the thin device will be passed ...
A thin-provisioned volume or LUN is one for which storage isn't reserved in advance . Instead, storage is allocated dynamically, as it is needed. Free space is released back to the storage system when data in the volume or LUN is deleted.
Using thin-provisioned logical volumes, you can create logical volumes that are larger than the available physical storage. Using thin-provisioned snapshot ...
Thin provisioning allows space to be easily allocated to servers, on a just-enough and just-in-time basis. Thin provisioning is called sparse volumes in some ...
A thin volume is always thinly-provisioned, which means that the capacity is allocated as the data is being written to the volume. You can create thick volumes ...
A thin-provisioned volume has different virtual capacity and a real capacity. Virtual capacity is the volume storage capacity that is available to a host.
Thin Provisioning has two main features: It is possible that a Thin-Provisioning volume may not get new space it needs because of running out of space.
