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Thin Provisioning a LeftHand P4000

While building out a demo environment I had cause to thin-provision already thin-provisioned storage (that might be on a thin-provisioned array. Don’t try this in production!) The issue was a pre-configured LeftHand P4000 appliance providing iSCSI LUNs to nested ESXi … Continue reading

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Thin-Provision Over-subscribe and To the Cloud

I got into an argument awhile back with a client over thin-provisioning.  His argument, while valid, represented a very conservative approach while I say if you’re not living on the edge you’re taking up too much room. Thin provisioning is … Continue reading

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