Dynamic Capacity^TM

Use significantly less storage and improve overall performance by allocating space only when data is physically written.

By only consuming physical disk when data is written, as opposed to allocating capacity upfront, Dynamic Capacity cuts your overall storage expenditures in half. You can easily allocate volumes of any size that only consume the physical disk needed — dramatically reducing spending, increasing availability, and boosting performance. You no longer need to over allocate and over commit idle disk resources to avoid painful volume expansion operations. Managing actual instead of allocated space also improves the performance of operations such as copy, replication, and rebuilds.

Benefits

• Reduce disk spending by adding storage incrementally
• Eliminate downtime due to volume expansion
• Automate capacity planning
• Increase system performance with disk operations based only on written data
• Unused physical storage is available to all volumes

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