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Monitoring Storage Space

Storage Center sends an Alert when additional space is required. The Storage Center:

• Automatically monitors the amount of space used and the amount of space remaining

on a Storage Center, both as a percentage of space and an absolute value

• Automatically allocates disk space for volumes to use as needed

• Notifies you when remaining free space falls below the Storage Alert Threshold

Storage Center groups all disks in a managed Disk Folder into one common pool of

storage. Volumes draw space from the common pool. Each volume simultaneously uses all

of the disk drives in the shared storage pool for improved data access rates.

Figure 204. Shared Storage Pool

Note An exception to the efficient pool of storage is created when disks are assigned to a

second Managed Disk Folder or volumes are created with non-standard datapage

sizes or redundancy. To take full advantage of Dynamic Capacity, assign all disks to

one Managed Disk Folder using standard Storage Type volumes.

Space is allocated from the shared storage pool as new volumes are created, additional

data is stored on volumes, and Replays are taken and stored.

Servers

Volumes

Managed Disk Folder pool of storage