Product guide

262 EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter
About Virtual Provisioning
Virtual Provisioning glossary
High level terminology
Virtual Provisioning
EMC’s corporate term for thin provisioning.
Storage Pool
Umbrella term for storage pools used by virtual architectures.
Commonly used terminology
Thin Device
Host accessible device that has no storage directly associated with it, referred to as a
TDev.
Device
Logical unit of storage defined within an array.
Data Device
Internal device that provides storage capacity to be used by thin devices.
Thin pool
Collection of data devices and TDevs that is linked to host visible logical devices, and
is dynamically allocated as needed.
Bind
Associating one or more thin devices with a thin pool.
Unbind
Disassociating one or more thin devices from a thin pool.