Today's virtual server infrastructures demand full visibility into both allocation and how your capacity is actually consumed, as well as the ability to assess how data grows over time. To stay competitive, you need to maximize your storage investment by fully utilizing capacity and gaining the ability to flexibly plan for long-term growth.
Dell Compellent Dynamic Capacity software helps organizations optimize storage utilization by eliminating pre-allocation of capacity. Built into the storage platform, the thin provisioning software allows Dell Compellent storage to consume only the capacity actually used by an application, leaving unused disk space in the storage pool available to all other servers and applications. Administrators can provision any size virtual volume upfront, but consume disk space only when data is written.
Built into every Dell Compellent Storage Center system, thin provisioning delivers efficient storage utilization. Our advanced thin provisioning, called Dynamic Capacity, completely separates storage allocation from utilization, enabling users to allocate any size volume upfront yet only consume physical capacity on write. You can even reclaim capacity that is no longer in use by applications, automatically reduce the space needed for virtual OS volumes and convert traditional volumes on existing storage to thin-provisioned capacity.