Control your storage costs by providing a higher level of utilization and eliminating storage waste and the need for dedicated capacity. vStorage Thin Provisioning, a key component of vStorage, allows over-allocation of storage capacity for increased storage utilization, enhanced application uptime, and simplified storage capacity management. Lower capital and operating expenditures by reducing disk purchase and cutting the power and cooling cost of the excess disk.
- Reduce IT costs and improve flexibility with server consolidation
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Features
The following is a list of the key features of VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning. For a comprehensive list of VMware vSphere features download the key features summary.
- Increase storage utilization. Application users have always requested storage administrators to provision more capacity than needed in order to guarantee support for future growth. The maximum capacity is seldom reached and therefore results in unused space and waste resources. It also encroaches into the space that could have been used by other applications. With VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning, storage administrators can increase their storage utilization by letting them dedicate more storage than the actual capacity. By allowing oversubscription of capacity to the virtual machines, thin provisioning eliminates the need to dedicate full capacity upfront.
- Enhance application uptime. Managing storage allocations to support dynamic environments can be a time-consuming process that requires extensive coordination between application owners, virtual machine owners and storage administrators, often resulting in downtime for critical applications. Furthermore, delay during the process of storage allocation at any layer, storage to application can result in prolonged application downtime. By eliminating the need to periodically provision more capacity, VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning helps to eliminates application downtime.
- Simplify storage capacity management. Typically, storage provisioning is a manual process requiring careful planning and coordination by IT management, storage administrators, system administrators, and application administrators.
