Thin Provisioning And Smart Tiers Best Practices

Smart Tiering expands on Thin Provisioned storage by automatically tiering data for best performance and allows the array administrator to pre-plan user capacity needs and allocate virtual storage based on the planned future capacity, but physically only consume the amount of disk space that the user is actually accessing. As a result, administrators no longer have to concern themselves with load balance application across faster media in addition to wasted storage-storage that has been allocated but is not currently in use by the users. This whitepaper provides an overview of the best practices for setting up Smart Tiering and ThP on the HP XP7 storage.

The reader should have some familiarity or knowledge regarding provisioning of an XP7, and the tools used to provision the array such as Remote Web Console. Please refer to the HP XP7 User Guide for details about provisioning and interaction between program products.

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