EMC Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning enables organizations to reduce costs by simplifying storage management and increasing capacity utilization. Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning enables you to present a large amount of capacity to a host, and then consume space only as needed from a shared pool. This improves total cost of ownership (TCO) by reducing initial over-allocation of storage capacity. Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning also reduces labor by simplifying data layout with automated wide striping, and reducing the steps required to support growth.