HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform administrator guide (5697-0204, January 2010)

write. This may be observed after the creation of a thinly provisioned virtual disk when random writes
may trigger many expansions, and is less likely to occur after a volume has been used for a while.
To avoid this first write penalty, pre-write a significant portion of the volume and then delete the data.
SVSP allows for an initial allocation of up to (the smaller of) 10% of the size of the virtual disk or 32
GB. Growth of the allocation is based on the size of the initial allocation.
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