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* * * SVC 4.3 introduces a new function called “Space-Efficient Virtual Disks” or SEV. This function is the implementation on SVC of what is commonly referred to as “thin provisioning”. Without SEV, “fully allocated” virtual disks on SVC use physical disk capacity for the entire capacity of a virtual disk. If you create a 500GB virtual disk, SVC allocates 500GB of physical disk capacity in a managed disk group for that virtual disk even if only 100MB of data is written to the virtual disk. This is essentially the same way that traditional disk systems operate. With SEV, SVC allocates and uses physical disk space for a virtual disk only when you write data to the virtual disk. In our example of a 500GB virtual disk with only 100MB of data, SVC would use only about 100MB of disk space for that virtual disk. As you can see, the potential for reducing the amount of disk capacity needed is very great: many disks in Windows, Linux, and UNIX environments have a great deal of allocated but unused space, which you can reclaim with SEV. Customers can choose what type of virtual disk to create: you can create fully allocated virtual disks and also space-efficient virtual disks to meet different needs.（显然SEV大大减少对物理磁盘空间的需要。许多在windows, linux, unix环境中存在着许多分配但未使用的磁盘空间。而使用SEV可以释放出这些空间。客户可以定义那些应用使用SEV那些不使用SEV。 The tremendously valuable new function is available at no additional charge with an SVC base virtualization license. Existing customers will get the new function automatically when they upgrade to SVC 4.3.现有的SVC客户可以升级到SVC4。3就可以具有这一功能。 * 卷一级的本地复制功能；源卷和目标卷都可以被主机访问。 创建用于备份、并行处理、测试等需求的数据拷贝； 拷贝既时可用； 后台拷贝操作或者“copy on write” 一个源卷最多支持256个（SVC4.3)拷贝； 源卷和目标卷可以是建立在任何SVC支持的磁盘系统 SVC implements a FlashCopy function that is similar to those implemented on IBM disk systems. The SVC FlashCopy function operates at the level of “volumes” (vdisks). That is, it copies whole volumes. The FlashCopy function is intended to create copies of data that may be used for purposes such as disk-