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ALSO CALLED: Thin Provisioning, Provisioning
DEFINITION: Fat provisioning (FP) is the conventional storage provisioning model, in which space is allocated beyond current needs, in anticipation of growing need and increased data complexity. As a result, the storage utilization rate is low. Large amounts of storage space are paid for but may never be used. A newer model, known as thin provisioning TP, was developed to optimize the efficient use of available  … 
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Sun Microsystems Flash Analyzer
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SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: The Sun Flash Analyzer and Sun StorageTek Workload Analysis Tool (Swat), are open systems host-based, storage-centric Java applications that thoroughly capture, summarize, and analyze storage workloads for Solaris, Windows and Linux environments.
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Published: 09 Nov 2009


Sun StorageTek Workload Analysis Tool 3.02 and Sun Flash Analyzer General Availability
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: The Sun Flash Analyzer and Sun StorageTek Workload Analysis Tool (Swat), are open systems host-based, storage-centric Java applications that thoroughly capture, summarize, and analyze storage workloads for Solaris, Windows and Linux environments.
Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

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STORAGE PROVISIONING DEFINITION (continued): … Fat provisioning (FP) is the conventional storage provisioning model, in which space is allocated beyond current needs, in anticipation of growing need and increased data complexity. As a result, the storage utilization rate is low. Large amounts of storage space are paid for but may never be used. A newer model, known as thin provisioning TP, was developed to optimize the efficient use of available space.
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