Contents
About provisioning.................................................................................................................13
Basic provisioning..................................................................................................................13
Fixed-sized provisioning...........................................................................................................13
Disadvantages ......................................................................................................................14
Custom-sized provisioning........................................................................................................15
Thin Provisioning Overview......................................................................................................16
Thin Provisioning....................................................................................................................16
Thin Provisioning concepts ......................................................................................................17
Thin Provisioning workflow.......................................................................................................18
Smart Tiers............................................................................................................................19
Tiers concept .........................................................................................................................19
When to use Smart Tiers..........................................................................................................20
Data retention strategies..........................................................................................................20
Resource groups strategies.......................................................................................................20
Complimentary strategies........................................................................................................20
Key terms..............................................................................................................................21
Before you begin....................................................................................................................21
V-VOL...............................................................................................................................23
Resource groups examples.......................................................................................................28
Meta_resource.......................................................................................................................31
Resource lock.........................................................................................................................31
User groups...........................................................................................................................31
Creating a resource group.......................................................................................................32
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