Hi, I just release a fifth hands-on movie this month and on this interesting topic. You can find the movie here:  Shared Storage Pools 2 - Thin provisioning, monitoring free space + Alerts     Shared Storage Pool Thin provisioning is pretty cool and saves a lot of disk space . Effectively the 100's of GBs of unused disks space in 100's of Virtual Machines (LPARs) are bought together in one place in the Shared Storage Pool and then can be used for real.  All this without the use of clever disk subsystems.  The risk is that you use all the disk... [More]

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