HP StorageWorks XP Remote Web Console Software - Manual (Page 8)

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This chapter contains a technical overview of XP Thin Provisioning.
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“XP Thin Provisioning Components” (page 8)
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“Managing Pool Capacity” (page 11)
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“Interoperability with Other Products and Functions” (page 17)
XP Thin Provisioning Components
Relationship between XP Thin Provisioning volumes and pools
Figure 2 (page 8) 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: V-VOL capacity
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46 MB to 4,194,303 MB, or
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96,000 blocks to 8,589,934,592 blocks, or
• 50 to 4,473,924 cylinders
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
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