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3PAR Thin Provisioning

How Fat is Your Storage?
Traditional storage systems with fat provisioning suffer from poor capacity utilization. They lack the lean, capacity-saving muscle that 3PAR Utility Storage with Thin Provisioning provides. With 3PAR Thin Provisioning, you can allocate storage for applications once and then only purchase capacity as applications truly require it (for written data).

Weigh In Now
The Think Thin Storage Calculator will help benchmark your current storage environment and will determine just how much leaner your storage environment could be. Simply follow the seven steps provided and find out how much capacity savings you could experience with 3PAR Utility Storage, Thin Provisioning, and Thin Copy technologies.



Think Thin Storage Calculator
7 simple steps

Roll over each for more information

1.  Base Capacity (useable TB)

2.  Local Copies (as % of Base Capacity) %
(ok to exceed 100%)
3.  For Local Copies, snapshots or clones
4.  Remote Copies (as % of Base Capacity) %
(ok to exceed 100%)
5.  RAID Protection, Avg. Data to Parity ratio
6.  RAID Protection, 3PAR Data to Parity ratio *
7.  Written-to-allocated Capacity Ratio ** %
(not to exceed 100%)

* See Oracle/3PAR whitepaper

** Glasshouse study: average written-to-allocated ratio is 25%


Storage Evaluation

This evaluation will show your capacity savings opportunities with 3PAR Thin Provisioning and Thin Copy technologies. Savings are calculated based upon your input of useable capacity requirements for base volumes, local copies, and remote copies.




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