Thin Provisioning

Dynamic Capacity™

Dell Compellent Thin Provisioning delivers the highest enterprise storage utilization possible by eliminating pre-allocated but unused capacity. The software, Dynamic Capacity, completely separates allocation from utilization, enabling users to provision any size volume upfront yet only consume disk space when data is written. Thin Write technology assesses the incoming payload and designates capacity for each write on demand, leaving unused disk space in the storage pool for other servers and applications.

How to Optimize Disk Utilization with Dynamic Capacity

• Eliminate the pre-allocated but unused disk capacity inherent to traditional network storage systems
• Expand volumes online and add capacity on the fly to accommodate change without disruption or downtime
  
• Convert legacy volumes to virtual volumes when introducing them to the storage pool using Thin Import
• Use Free Space Recovery to reclaim disk space after files are deleted in Windows® environments
• Automate storage consumption monitoring and trend analysis with capacity threshold alerts and history reports
• Reduce the capacity needed to store existing data up to 40% when migrating to Dell Compellent