SolidFire Thin Provisioning
The SolidFire Thin Provisioning storage efficiency feature is done in line, in real time, is completely automatic and has no performance impact. This storage efficiency technology works in concert with the Compression and Deduplication efficiencies and together delivers amazing capacity utilization.
SolidFire Thin Provisioning:
- Is done in 4k fine grained blocks
- Requires no reservations or pre-allocation
- Performs no data movement
- Protects against allocating data when applications initialize with zeros
- Automatically reclaims zeroed data
- Never stalls IO to allocate capacity
See for yourself how much more capacity you could be saving. Download and run the eScanner utility on your data to find out exactly how effective SolidFire Thin Provisining, Compression, and Deduplication would be for you.
