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Processing and Scheduling Thin Provisioning

February 22, 2011 By Stephen 3 Comments

Although the core issues with thin provisioning revolve around communication, it presents unique challenges to the storage array as well. We talked about granularity of pages, and the comments for that piece were extremely enlightening. Now let's consider another key factor: Scheduling. Note that the "provisioning" part is relatively easy to do on the fly: An array just has … [Read more...] about Processing and Scheduling Thin Provisioning

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