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2 about xp thin provisioning operations, Xp thin provisioning components, Supported configurations – HP StorageWorks XP Remote Web Console Software User Manual

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2 About XP Thin Provisioning Operations

This chapter contains a technical overview of XP Thin Provisioning.

“XP Thin Provisioning Components” (page 9)

“Managing Pool Capacity” (page 12)

“Interoperability with Other Products and Functions” (page 18)

XP Thin Provisioning Components

Relationship between XP Thin Provisioning volumes and pools

Figure 2 (page 9)

illustrates the relationship between an XP Thin Provisioning volume and an XP

Thin Provisioning pool.

Figure 2 XP Thin Provisioning

Supported Configurations

Table 1 Supported XP Thin Provisioning Configurations

Supported Configurations

Items

46 MB to 4.0 TB:

46 MB to 4,194,303 MB, or

96,000 blocks to 8,589,934,592 blocks, or

50 to 4,473,924 cylinders

V-VOL capacity

8192 per pool

Maximum number of
V-VOLs

128 per subsystem, 128 deducted from the maximum number of XP Snapshot
pools.

Maximum number of pools

XP Thin Provisioning Components

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