To be fair, that's the point of thin provisioning: to save money. But it's that age old battle between time and money... you can spend the time to manage and project and save money, or you can spend money and not have to spend as much time managing and planning.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Sphar, Mike Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 3:46 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: List still active?
I have certainly never worked anywhere where I could count on getting budget approval for storage upgrades any time of year. ("We're about to run out of space on the file server! We need to spend some of our budgeted storage money!" "Sorry, we're in a budget freeze, no capital purchases until next fiscal year...maybe.") And my users always use up all the space they're given rapidly, even when I buy storage based on their 3-year requirements and I double those.
Just one of the reasons I don't allocate space like this. I wish I could though.