Thecus, a provider of IP Storage Server offerings, including Network Attached Storage (NAS) , DAS, External Storage and Wireless Media NAS (Bank ) products, has introduced its advanced iSCSI Thin-Provision feature that supports wide range of Thecus NAS servers.
The company said that the new feature offers business of all scales a flexible yet cost effect storage resource management offerings.
The advanced iSCSI Thin-Provision support allows administrators to create up to 5 iSCSI Thin-Provision targets under one iSCSI Thin-Provision volume on Thecus NAS servers.
The iSCSI Thin-Provision targets will share physical storage space from the iSCSI Thin-Provision volume, and allows administrators to allocate virtual storage space on iSCSI targets that will only take up physical storage space when they are actually needed.
Administrators can decided whether or not to expand the physical storage space, after a notification is sent to when 90% of the physical iSCSI Thin-Provision volume has been utilised.
iSCSI Thin-Provision support prevents administrators from over provisioning physical storage space before it is actually needed.
