Overprovisioning

Overprovisioning — a feature of work in which more resources are allocated than there are at the hardware level. This approach allows you to increase the cost-effectiveness of the use of equipment.

The concept of overprovisioning is closely related to overcommit. In the first case, more resources are allocated than are actually available, and in the second case, those resources begin to be used.

Thus, overprovisioning helps to improve the economic efficiency of hardware usage. However, it can also lead to a lack of resources, which reduces performance for some time.