Introduction to provisioning

Provisioning a storage system requires balancing the costs of the solution with the benefits that the solution provides. The following is an overview of provisioning strategies that you can implement on the Virtual Storage Platform G200, G400, G600, G800 and Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600, F800 to support your business.

• About provisioning

• Basic provisioning

• Fixed-sized provisioning

• Disadvantages

• When to use fixed-sized provisioning

• Custom-sized provisioning

• When to use custom-sized provisioning

• Basic provisioning workflow

• Dynamic Provisioning Overview

• Dynamic Provisioning

• Dynamic Provisioning concepts

• When to use Dynamic Provisioning

• Dynamic Provisioning advantages

• DP-VOL of the data direct mapping attribute

• Dynamic Provisioning advantage example

• Dynamic Provisioning workflow

• Pools comprised of pool volumes carved from accelerated compression-enabled parity groups