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How you use space management capabilities

To use the storage provided by FlexVol volumes as effectively as possible, you need to understand the space management capabilities that help you balance overall available storage against required user and application storage needs.

Data ONTAP enables space management using the following capabilities:

These capabilities are used together to enable you to determine, on a volume-by-volume basis, whether to emphasize storage utilization, ease of management, or something in between.