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  • 1.  Data Deduplication.

    Posted Jul 02, 2010 08:52 AM

    Hi All,

    I've come across the term deduplication and it's functionality and was wandering could anyone tell me:

    What are the hardware requirements?

    Does this need enabling anywhere within the vsphere client, or on the ESX server?

    Thanks in advance

    Mike.



  • 2.  RE: Data Deduplication.

    Posted Jul 02, 2010 09:11 AM

    In ESX(i) you will find deduplication in two places.

    "Transparent memory page sharing" uses deduplication to optimize physical memory usage.

    However, I think what you are asking for is deduplication on disk. This is only used by VDR "VMware Data Recovery" to save space on the backup destination. Deduplication in VDR is enabled by default and is done online (software based) so there's no need for special hardware.

    André