IWEB .0001 Thin Provisioning
Efficient allocation of storage, saving 20-40% of storage space to repurpose for other applications
With IceWEB’s IceSTORM™ OS, thin provisioning means that when an iSCSI volume or Fibre Channel LUN (used synonymously here as a “volume” for simplicity) gets presented to a server, it appears as a fixed “disk” that the server has available, but no actual space reservation is made for that volume on the data storage array.Just like the airline industry overbooks flights knowing that not all passengers will show up at the gate, thin provisioning lets you “over allocate” your data storage arrays, effectively having more storage space available to your application servers than you actually have in the storage array.
