350-601 Storage Network Practice Question
A storage administrator wants to provide a volume that appears larger than its actual physical capacity, allocating storage blocks only as data is written. Which storage provisioning method is being described?
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Thin provisioning
Thin provisioning allows over-allocation of storage capacity, presenting a large logical volume to hosts while using physical storage only as needed.
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Thin provisioning
Why this is correct
Correct. Thin provisioning presents more capacity than physically available, allocating on demand.
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Snapshot
Why it's wrong here
Snapshots capture point-in-time data, not provisioning.
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Thick provisioning
Why it's wrong here
Thick provisioning allocates all physical storage upfront.
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RAID-5
Why it's wrong here
RAID-5 is a data protection scheme, not provisioning.
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