Enabling thin provisioning for LUNs
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You can use SnapDrive for UNIX to carry out thin provisioning on your storage system. Thin provisioning is also referred as space-reservation.
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Set the
space-reservations-enabled
configuration variable value toon
.You can also enable thin provisioning by using the
-reserve
and-noreserve
parameters.Parameter override the value mentioned in the
-space-reservations-enabled
variable.You could use
-reserve
and-noreserve
with the following commands to enable or disable LUN reservation:-
snapdrive storage create
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snapdrive storage resize
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snapdrive snap connect
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snapdrive snap restore
By default, SnapDrive for UNIX enables space reservation for a fresh or new storage create operations. For snap restore and snap connect operations, it uses the space reservation present in the Snapshot copy if the
-reserve
or-noreserve
parameters are not specified at the command line, or if the value in the configuration file is uncommented. -