Thin Provisioning

Thin Provisioning has the following features:

• Storage Capacity Virtualization

  The physical storage capacity can be reduced by allocating the virtual drives to a server, which allows efficient use of the storage capacity. The volumes more than the capacity of all the installed drives can be allocated by setting the capacity required for virtual volumes in the future.

• TPV Balancing

  I/O access to the virtual volume can be distributed among the RAID groups in a pool by relocating and balancing the physical areas allocated to the virtual volume.

• TPV/FTV Capacity Optimization (Zero Reclamation)

  Data in physically allocated areas are checked in blocks and unnecessary areas (areas where 0 is allocated to all of the data in each block) are released to unallocated areas.