HP XP P9000 Provisioning for Open Systems User Guide

The following illustrates a simple expanded LU environment, where LDEVs are concatenated to
form a LUSE volume.
When to use custom-sized provisioning
Use custom-sized provisioning when you want to manually control and monitor your storage
resources and usage scenarios.
When to use expanded-LU provisioning
Expanded-LU provisioning is a best fit in the following scenarios:
• In an open systems environment.
• When you want to manually control and monitor your storage resources and usage scenarios.
• To combine open-systems volumes to create an open-systems volume (LU) larger than 2.8 TB.
• When thin provisioning is not an option.
For detailed information, see “Configuring expanded LU provisioning” (page 64).
Basic provisioning workflow
The following illustrates the basic provisioning workflow:
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