StorTrends® 2401 Setup Guide
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Select SAN as the Dialect Type
Select
SAN
as the
Dialect Type
.
Select Thin or Exact Provisioning
Select the type of provisioning that you want to use.
A SAN volume is a block-level volume. This SAN volume can be assigned an actual size
of the physical size of the storage device using Exact Provisioning or greater size than the
actual physical size of the storage device using Thin Provisioning.
If you select
Exact
, the volume size cannot exceed the actual physical space available in
the storage device.
NOTE:
It is recommended to leave 20% of the physical space free for snapshots.
Auto Provisioning
is not supported for SAN Volumes. For this reason it is grayed out
and cannot be selected.
Auto Provisioning
is only supported for NAS Volumes.
