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May 5th, 2010 15:00

Quotas on Thin Luns

Hi

Is it possible to establish  how much storage on a Thin LUN can a host use?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Thin LUNS can't grow, and they can't be part of a Meta, so, if you give the server a small device from the beginning (or at least smaller than expected), what could be your options?

I'm asking about quotas or something alike, so you could give the server let's say a 1 TB TLUN, and let the server use just 500GB, if server needs more storage, set the new quota to 600GB and so on, until use the whole TB.

Can this be done?

Regards

Alex

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    AranH1

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    Posted May 6th, 2010 08:00

    Alex,

    I think what you are looking for is the ability to expand a Thin LUN. This would allow you to just provision a LUN of the initial size you want to limit the aplication to, and then expand it as needed. This is a feature that EMC stated will be available in future revisions of  Virtual Provisioning, but I have not seen anything in the latest release notes about when this will be available.

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    AlexMX1

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    Posted May 11th, 2010 11:00

    Thanks AranH

    You are right, that's what I'm looking for. We don't want to give more storage than the one we really have, so an option would be to use quotas or something alike.

    There isn't any other way to implement the same functionality?

    Regards

    Alex

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