Good post by Jason Boche (thank you)
I talk with a lot of customers including those confined to vSphere, storage, and general datacenter management roles. The IT footprint size varies quite a bit between discussions as does the level of experience across technologies. However, one particular topic seems to come up at regular intervals when talking vSphere and storage: Thin Provisioning – where exactly is the right place for it in the stack? At the SAN layer? At the vSphere layer? Both?
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