If you have data or deal with it with respect to your company needs, you’ll need an efficient way to store all that data. Data storage, however, is an element in IT management that not everyone gets right. Investing in a storage system starts with your business needs for data storage which again depends on the needs of the users, the level of performance desired, capacities needed, etc.
Thin provisioning is a relatively new concept which helps businesses allocate or provision storage capacities (disk storage) to systems and servers. It involves the ability to lease storage space on a Storage Area Network (SAN) while making it appear that there’s more storage space than there really is.
In storage thin provisioning, a pre-determined amount of storage is allocated to a server which then automatically grows up to a pre-defined limit that’s already set. Due to this, it now appears that the server in question has plenty of storage space available and you can use this space depending on the needs of the company.
Storage Thin provisioning: How it helps Businesses?
For one, it’s an obviously handy solution for flexible allocation of resources pertaining to storage for businesses. It turns out to be easier on the budget and helps you to avoid paying for infrastructure you don’t need. Meanwhile, you can still plan for growth or expansion without committing dollars for hardware.
It’s a heavy handed labour to manually allocate storage capacity into a common pool, remove excess storage capacity from the pool. Thin provisioning allows you to obviate this kind of labour. It allows you to determine and allocate storage capacities as you deem fit, expand when you need to, cut down on storage when you have to – all the while not getting beyond your budget constraints, ever.
Storage management tasks become a lot easier while it allows your business to grow unshackled. Storage on the cloud begins to make sense with this approach where this elastic nature of storage management comes in as a dream solution for businesses.
Have you given a thought to storage thin provisioning? Does it hold value for you?
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