Posts Tagged Thin Provisioning

Storage and Busy Hypervisors

Performance Penalties in Virtualization Customers enjoy the benefit of virtualised server environments, but as one problem is fixed, unforeseen bottlenecks emerge as a result. Cramming loads of virtual machines into a single physical server raise the utilisation rate, but so does the IO traffic. And virtualisation customers have learned to devise various workarounds to alleviate [...]

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The Role for High-End Disk: HDS VSP

HDS launched its new high-end VSP disk system this week. It features: SSD tier-0 Dynamic Tiering Thin Provisioning Faster controller processors, more bandwidth Lower energy footprint High-end or Midrange? The disk system vendors in the high-end segment are catering for very big arrays, while this segment has been under pressure from the high-end of midrange [...]

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Symantec adds Thin Reclamation and more

Symantec enhances Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server. In this announcement Symantec Dec 7 announcement improves the functionality of Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF) by such features as thin provisioning, enhancing failover and recognising SSD, as well as adding performance. Thin API. Veritas File System provides thin reclamation on third party [...]

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