Thin Provisioned disks

Volumes can be created with disks that are enabled to support thin provisioning. and storage reclamation. Using thin provisioned disks for a volume allows for efficient allocation of storage for the volume. A disk that supports thin provisioning is represented with a disk icon that includes a red colored sector. A disk that supports thin provisioning and storage reclamation is represented with a disk icon that includes a green colored sector with an asterisk (*).

Note:

The operation to reclaim storage from thin provisioned disks is not supported for RAID-5, DCO, or Volume Replicator DCM volumes.

Note:

The operation to reclaim storage is supported only for NTFS and ReFS volumes.