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Select Thin or Exact Provisioning
Select the type of provisioning that you want to use.
By default, Exact Provisioning is selected because all the drive bays are typically
shipped occupied. Thin Provisioning is only useful if you plan to add hard disk drives to
your current configuration.
If you select Thin, the volume can be assigned a size greater than the actual physical size
of the storage device. For example, if the storage device has an actual physical size of
500 GB, the user can assign a size of up to 256 TB per box. Based on the consumption of
the storage device's physical capacity, more physical drive capacity can be added later as
desired.
Thin Provisioning is mentioned here in the event you decide to use this unit as a head
unit with a JBOD attached.
If you select Exact, the volume size cannot exceed the actual physical space available in
the storage device.
It is recommended to leave 20% of the physical space free for snapshots.
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