Dell White Paper Sample

Executive Summary

Virtual Provisioning helps enable organizations to reduce storage costs by increasing capacity utilization, simplifying storage management, and reducing application downtime. Virtual Provisioning also helps companies reduce power and cooling requirements and delay capital expenditures.

The Dell/EMC CX4 series introduces thin LUN technology that builds on current virtual LUN capabilities and seamlessly integrates with existing EMC management and replication software. With Dell/EMC CX4 Virtual Provisioning, you can choose between traditional LUNs, metaLUNs, and thin LUNs. The ability to non-disruptively migrate data to different LUN and disk types allows you to deploy the best solution for your changing application and business requirements without incurring downtime.

Dell/EMC CX4 thin LUN technology also supports features such as hot sparing, proactive sparing, and the ability to migrate data between thin LUNs, traditional LUNs, and metaLUNs without incurring application downtime. This flexibility helps separate CX4 Virtual Provisioning from typical thin provisioning implementations.....