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CHAPTER 5
Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix
Devices
Virtual Provisioning is EMC's implementation of thin provisioning. EMC Ionix
ControlCenter 6.1 can be used to provision, monitor, and report the usage of virtually
provisioned devices. The information provided in this chapter is specific for
datacenters that use Symmetrix DMX-3 or DMX-4 storage arrays with Enginuity 5773
or Symmetrix V-Max with Enginuity 5874, and use Ionix ControlCenter to manage their
information infrastructure.
This chapter contains the following scenarios:
◆ Creating, mapping, and masking Symmetrix thin devices to a host ................. 194
◆ Monitoring Symmetrix thin pool utilization using Ionix ControlCenter alerts .... 227
◆ Reporting on virtual provisioned storage using StorageScope......................... 227
◆ Analyzing performance of virtually provisioned storage .................................. 247