Dynamic Provisioning

Though basic or traditional provisioning strategies can be appropriate and useful in specific scenarios, they can be expensive to set up, awkward and time consuming to configure, difficult to monitor, and error prone when maintaining storage.

Although Dynamic Provisioning requires some additional steps, it is a simpler alternative to the traditional provisioning methods. It uses thin provisioning technology that allows you to allocate virtual storage capacity based on anticipated future capacity needs, using virtual volumes instead of physical disk capacity.

Overall storage use rates can improve because you can potentially provide more virtual capacity to applications while using fewer physical disks. It can provide lower initial cost, greater efficiency, and storage management freedom for storage administrators. In this way, Dynamic Provisioning software:

• Simplifies storage management

• Provides balanced resources and more optimized performance by default without inordinate manual intervention.

• Maximizes physical disk usage

• Can reduce device address requirements over traditional provisioning by providing larger volume sizes.