VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...

While provisioning all the capacity of an external disk to a given application, known as full provisioning, ensures the app has plenty of growth potential, it results in poor utilization rates, a ...

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The first step in the implementation of any storage system is the allocation of capacity to servers and applications.Thin provisioning separates the logical representation of storage from the ...

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

Storage administrators know the drill: Someone in the organization needs extra capacity allocated to a new application. How much is enough? Most end up over-allocating to cover both existing and ...

Halfway through calendar year 2007, trends in the data storage business are becoming more defined. Decision makers at enterprises are now more aware of such topics as carbon footprints, green data ...

When we ask application owners about what they like least about storage services within their organizations, storage provisioning ranks at or near the top of the list. Storage provisioning typically ...