What is Thin Provisioning?

Thin provisioning is a storage technology that helps consolidate and share physical disk space across multiple thinly provisioned virtual disks or disk images (sparse files). With thin provisioning, we can create arbitrary large files or virtual disks without the need to provide all the necessary storage capacity at once immediately. The term thin provisioning is most commonly associated with virtual hard disks, such as disk images for virtual machines or containers. Benefits of Thin […]

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