NETAPP TECHNICAL REPORT

Technical Report:

Thin Provisioning in a NetApp SAN or IP SAN

 

Enterprise Environment

Rick Jooss

Jan 2008 | TR-3483

 

Abstract

 

Traditional disk arrays force the IT storage specialist to allocate and dedicate storage space to a particular volume or LUN at creation time. The problem is that at creation time the true requirements are often not known, which forces overprovisioning and higher costs. Network Appliance™ storage systems offer powerful, flexible provisioning capabilities that give IT storage specialists the flexibility to lower cost while meeting capacity and performance requirements. This document describes the configurations and recommendations for efficiently provisioning NetApp SAN iSAN storage.