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June 7th, 2021 05:00

PowerFlex Ready Node Oversubscription

Hello,

 

Do we have a powerflex document stating best practices for provisioning oversubscription? Is there a percentage limit for oversubscription?

 

Thanks,

Peter

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July 22nd, 2021 06:00

Hi Peter,  
Max allowed over-provisioning=20.
ie can create volumes 20 time the size of your physical capacity (thin volumes).

So if you have 10TB,then you can  create volumes up to 200TB thin volumes.

I will look for some official documentation for you.

Gearóid

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November 23rd, 2021 15:00

I think over subscribe storage size should be always avoided.  Why you present a 200TB volume to a server when the underlying storage can only store 20TB of data?    It doesn't give you any advantage other than when you fill the disk with 19.9 TB data on the server but won't get the low disk space warning.  In fact, it will give you a deadly problem if you store an Exchange or SQL database on an oversubscribed volume when it reaches the physical limit in the underlying storage.

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