Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Advanced Features Administrator"s Guide (5900-1503, April 2011)

About SF Thin Storage

optimization solutions

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About SF solutions for thin optimization

■ About Thin Storage

■ About Thin Provisioning

■ About SF Thin Reclamation feature

■ About SmartMove

About SF solutions for thin optimization

Array-based options like Thin Storage and Thin Provisioning help storage

administrators to meet the challenges in managing storage, such as provisioning

storage, migrating data for storage utilization, and maintaining storage utilization.

Storage Foundation provides several features that work together with the array

functionality to solve these challenges.

This topic describes the following solutions:

■ Provisioning Storage Foundation with SmartMove

■ Migrating data from thick storage to thin storage

■ Reclaiming space on a thin storage device with Thin Reclamation capabilities

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