Thursday, March 25, 2010

VMware "Dynamic Provisioning" with DataCore "Thin Provisioning"

Dynamic Provisioning, Thin Provisioning, Auto Provisioning, Virtual Provisioning.
http://sanmelody.blogspot.com/2010/03/vmware-dynamic-provisioning-with.html

They are all terms used to describe the function of allocating storage "on demand", server virtualization brings another dimension to storage thin provisioning as some hypervisors provide "storage" thin provisioning to the virtual servers that are encapsulated on them.

Lets look at the relationship between VMware's "Dynamic Provisioning" and DataCore's SANmelody Storage "Thin Provisioning", and how they can complement each other…Read More!