I like the idea of TP, such as what you find in Datacore. The ability to over subscribe your servers\network data and allow it to dynamically grow to the TP limit would be a huge plus. I can add additional data to the backend without having then to administratively resize the partitions on the servers. The caviate is the admin would need to monitor the actual usage of data and make sure you have enough in excess for the over subscription. I find this easier to do than resizing partitions. Any idea if this functionality would be added?
Dan LeBaron CSGM, CSSA Ingenuit Technologies, Inc Office: (866) 203-9649 Ext. 2300 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.ingenuittechnologies.com 24 Hour Web Support: http://support.ingenuittechnologies.com Phone Support: 866-203-9649 Option #2 DISCLAIMER: This message is intended for the sole use of the addressee, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the addressee you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose, or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete this message. Please consider the environment before printing e-mails -----Original Message----- From: Rafiu Fakunle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 6:55 PM To: Dan LeBaron Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OF-users] Support for Thin Provisioning Dan LeBaron wrote: > > Does or will open filer support Thin Provisioning ? > It doesn't currently. <opine> I'm not 100% sold on the idea of TP. Look at it this way: if you're spending upwards of $250K on an entry level NAS/SAN from the big boys, where cost/GB is essentially dictated by their comittment to shareholders rather than determined by market forces, then TP makes a lot of sense because you don't want to waste dollars on provisioning expensive storage upfront. OTOH, when you consider that a 1TB drive today costs as little as $220 -- well, if you use a solution like Openfiler, you can more than afford to give every single application its own dedicated 1TB mirrored volume without breaking the bank or worrying about capacity draw. </opine> Having said that, I think TP would be a nice feature for us to bullet in our feature list ;). R. > > > > > Dan LeBaron CSGM, CSSA > Ingenuit Technologies, Inc > > Office: (866) 203-9649 Ext. 2300 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Website: http://www.ingenuittechnologies.com > <http://www.ingenuittechnologies.com/> > > 24 Hour Web Support: http://support.ingenuittechnologies.com > <http://support.ingenuittechnologies.com/> > Phone Support: 866-203-9649 Option #2 > > email-footer > > > > DISCLAIMER: > > This message is intended for the sole use of the addressee, and may > contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from > disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the addressee you are > hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose, or distribute to > anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you > have received this message in error, please immediately advise the > sender by reply email and delete this message. > > > > P Please consider the environment before printing e-mails > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Openfiler-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users >
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