Thin Image

The high-speed, nondisruptive snapshot technology of Thin Image rapidly creates up to 1,024 point in-time copies of mission-critical information within the storage system or virtualized storage pool without impacting host service or performance levels. Because snapshots store only the changed data, the volume of storage capacity required for each snapshot copy is substantially smaller than the source volume, providing significant savings over full-volume cloning methods. Cascaded snapshot configuration and cloning enables creation of snapshot trees and full-copy clones from snapshots using Thin Image.

Child Topics

• Overview of Thin Image

  With Thin Image (HTI), you can perform cost-effective replication by storing the differential data between primary volumes (P-VOLs) and secondary volumes (S-VOLs) of virtual volumes (V-VOLs). You can also copy data of an entire volume, instead of copying just the differential data, to a volume. By copying the entire volume, you can expect a higher performance than by just storing the differential data.

• Configuring Thin Image
• Managing Thin Image Pairs
• Monitoring and maintaining Thin Image
• CCI command reference for Thin Image
• Thin Image GUI windows and wizards