The situation you're describing, where a system appears to have access to more storage than it can actually address, is known as thin provisioning. Thin provisioning allows for the allocation of disk space on an as-needed basis, meaning that a system can report more storage capacity than is physically available, thereby optimizing resource usage.
Your client system believes that it has access to 1 TB of storage capacity in your data center. In reality, the system is currently only able to address 500 GB of storage capacity. What is this technological approach called?
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Deep archiving
Thick provisioning
Tiered storage
Thin provisioning
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