Gateway Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning

Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, 3 years Sw Support Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software is thin provisioning software that provides virtual storage capacity. Provisioning storage from a virtual pool reduces administration costs by cutting the time to provision new storage. It also improves application availability by reducing the downtime needed for storage provisioning.

- Allocate storage to an application without it being physically mapped until it is used
- Achieve overall higher rates of storage utilization with “just-in-time" provisioning
- Separate an application’s storage provisioning from the addition of physical storage capacity to the storage system
- Add physical storage nondisruptively as needed
- Place storage in a central pool that is available to all thin provisioned volumes
- Automatically allocate additional physical storage to the volume from the shared virtual pool whenever an application requires additional capacity
- Receive proactive alerts before more physical storage is required as Dynamic Provisioning software monitors storage resources
- Transparently spread individual I/O workloads across multiple physical disks to balance workloads, eliminate bottlenecks and reduce costs of managing performance and capacity
- Improve overall storage utilization while all hosted applications are automatically performance tuned (via I/O workload balancing) for operational efficiency