Overview of Thin Image

With Hitachi 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).

These sections provide instructions for planning and designing, configuring, operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting HTI.

These sections include the following information:

• Thin Image workflow

• Components of Thin Image

• How Thin Image works

• Thin Image pair status

• The copy threshold option and host server I/O performance

• Sharing Thin Image volumes with other VSP G200, G400, G600 storage system software applications

• Acronyms and abbreviations for VSP G200, G400, G600 storage system software applications used in this guide

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