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vStart 50 Solution Overview
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5.5.1 Thin Provisioning
The solution enables support for thin provisioning of storage at the EqualLogic level. Thin provisioning
avoids the inefficiencies of over allocation. This is possible by limiting the physical storage resource
allocation to what is currently used and enables the automatic addition of storage resources as
requirements grow.
5.5.2 Storage Tiering
EqualLogic PS arrays provide IT organizations numerous techniques for storage tiering as a standard
part of their all-inclusive feature set. These techniques extend the automation at the core of the PS
Series design philosophy while allowing broad customization of storage tiers to suit a wide range of
business and organizational requirements.
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6 Management Capabilities
This section provides an overview of various tasks that the administrator is required to perform on the
virtualization infrastructure, and the tools that are used to perform those tasks.
As shown in Figure 3 below, Server and Cluster Manager provide a framework from which to view and
manage the Hyper-V cluster, hosts, and VMs.
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