With Thin Provisioning
Without Thin Provisioning
Advantages
Some file systems take up little pool space. For
more details, see
When physical capacity becomes insufficient,
you can add pool capacity without service
interruption.
You must stop the disk array to reconfigure it.
Reduces
management costs
In addition, with Smart Tiers you can configure
pool storage consisting of multiple types of data
drives, including SSD, SAS, and external
volumes. This eliminates unnecessary costs.
HP XP7 Storage product licenses are based on
used capacity rather than the total defined
capacity.
As the expected physical disk capacity is
purchased, the unused capacity of the storage
system also needs to be managed on the
Reduces
management labor
and increases
You can allocate volumes of up to 60 TB
regardless of physical disk capacity.
storage system and on licensed HP XP7
Storage products.
availability of
storage volumes for
replication
Smart Tiers allows you to use storage efficiently
by automatically migrating data to the most
suitable data drive.
Effectively combines I/O patterns of many
applications and evenly spreads the I/O activity
Because physical disk capacity is initially
purchased and installed to meet expected
Increases the
performance
across available physical resources, preventing
future needs, portions of the capacity may be
efficiency of the data
drive
bottlenecks in parity group performance.
unused. I/O loads may concentrate on just a
Configuring the volumes from multiple parity
subset of the storage which might decrease
performance.
groups improves parity group performance. This
also increases storage use while reducing power
and pooling requirements (total cost of
ownership).
Thin Provisioning advantage example
To illustrate the merits of a Thin Provisioning environment, assume you have twelve LDEVs from 12
RAID 1 (2D+2D) array groups assigned to a THP pool. All 48 disks contribute their IOPS and
throughput power to all THP volumes assigned to that pool. Instead, if more random read IOPS
horsepower is desired for a pool, then it can be created with 32 LDEVs from 32 RAID 5 (3D+1P)
array groups, thus providing 128 disks of IOPS power to that pool. Up to 1024 LDEVs may be
assigned to a single pool, providing a considerable amount of I/O capability to just a few THP
volumes.
Thin Provisioning workflow
The following illustrates the Thin Provisioning workflow.
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Introduction to provisioning
Содержание XP7
Страница 229: ...Select LDEVs window Available LDEVs table Description Item LDEV identifiers LDEV ID Create Resource Groups wizard 229 ...
Страница 303: ...Pools Volume tabs Pools Volume tabs 303 ...
Страница 378: ...Add LUN Paths wizard Select LDEVs window Available LDEVs table 378 LUN Manager GUI reference ...
Страница 381: ...Select Host Groups window Available Host Groups table Add LUN Paths wizard 381 ...