Hey all, we are preparing to embark down the path of using thin-provisioned VVs. I've been digging around trying to find how people manage using thin-provisioning without shooting themselves in the foot. I'm hoping the community has some insights from their experiences.
One question I have is, how do you effectively use CPG growth warnings? If you have a number of CPGs growing evenly, you could effectively use a lot of space without the warnings going off. Of course, we'd put alerts at the system level, for sure, but curious how people decide the appropriate sizing for their warnings.
Another issue that's been concerning me is reporting the storage utilization vs. allocation. Is there an easy way to see the total allocated vs. used? I'd like to be able to quickly compare total storage available in the system, total used, and total allocated, so we can see for each storage tier how close we are to filling up available space, and how overallocated we are.
Beyond that, what metrics do you find really help you get a grip on your TP implementation? I suspect I will learn a lot from actually doing it, but any help to avoid stupid mistakes would be appreciated greatly.
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