Understanding How Thin Provisioning Works with z/OS - A New Way of Thinking About SMS

Project and Program: MVS, MVS Storage Management

Tags: Proceedings, SHARE Phoenix 2019, 2019

Companies are looking at ways to use their storage resources more efficiently, as ever-increasing storage demands can have negative effects on an organization’s IT budget and complicate the overall storage infrastructure and management. Thin provisioning can help by reducing the amount of unused storage that is typically allocated to applications or users. Even if you use SMS today to manage your storage, you could benefit from exploiting Thin Provisioning concepts such as on-demand storage allocation and over-provisioning. The speaker will provide an overview of Thin Provisioning on Z and specific Z use cases to help you recognize the potential benefits of improved capacity utilization and reduced storage management efforts.-Robert Gensler-IBM; Nick Clayton-IBM Corporation

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