The amount of data we use grows every day. Microsoft says that by , the amount of created information per person sic! With that said, everyone is participating in this trend but only a few must deal with it in their everyday work.
We are constantly looking to implement technologies and services that allow us to manage information flow better and let us store data efficiently without eating up our budget. So, this article should be useful for people who are considering data deduplication technology and would like to know its benefits as well as practical savings with specific Veeam scenarios.
The system preserves unique blocks only, moving them into a chunk store and leaving references reparse points for those blocks that are used more than once. This allows you to have valuable storage savings if the said data is similar. A Data Deduplication process runs one of four different task types: Optimization splitting data into chunks and moving them into the chunk store , garbage collection reclaiming space by removing obsolete chunks , integrity scrubbing detecting corruption in the chunk store or unoptimization undoing optimization and disabling data deduplication on this volume.
Please refer to the Microsoft knowledge base for more details about Data Deduplication basics. Enabling Dedup is as easy as adding a new server feature via Server Manager Figure 1. Then, you will need to select the schedule for the data deduplication job and adjust the default settings if required. How is the feature added? How do you enable deduplication, check its status, and pause or stop the deduplication process? Let's take a look at Windows Server deduplication. When you store data comprising various files and other data on any Windows Server, there will be duplicated data blocks among the multiple files.
It is especially true if the different files stored on a Windows Server volume are similar in content or structure. A departmental file server is a good example that helps visualize how there may be vast amounts of duplicated data. In a large file share, end users may store many copies of the same or similar files. This leads to redundant copies of data that impact the efficiency of storage. Instead of storing multiple copies of data, as in traditional storage environments, deduplication provides the means to store the data once and create intelligent pointers to the actual data location.
In this way, the storage environment does not house duplicated information. Microsoft keeps improving the features of deduplication as well. Microsoft uses two principles to implement data deduplication in Windows Server:. To accomplish the successful deduplication of data in accordance with the principles listed above, Windows Server uses the following process:. Specific use cases lend themselves favorable to data deduplication.
What are workloads that typically show massive benefits to using data deduplication? Let's list these in the order of the most significant benefits. The process to install the Windows Server Dedup feature is straightforward. Below is a screenshot from Windows Server Data Deduplication installation in Windows Admin Center is carried out by visiting the Roles and Features menu and placing a check next to Data Deduplication , which is found under the File and Storage Services role.
Once you have installed Data Deduplication, the process to enable it on a volume is straightforward. Click the disk. Then click the volume that resides on the disk that you want to deduplicate. Enabling Data Deduplication for a Windows Server volume.
Choose the type of files stored on the volume to be deduplicated. Configuring Windows Server deduplication setting. The Deduplication Schedule configuration provides interesting options to customize the background process used to run the data deduplication.
You can further customize the deduplication schedule and resource utilization using the throughput optimization options. It also allows for multiple schedules. Setting the deduplication schedule in Windows Server You may wonder how the background tasks run.
When you install Data Deduplication, Windows creates scheduled tasks to take care of the background process, garbage collection, and data scrubbing. If you want to run these manually, you can. The space savings that you can gain from Data Deduplication depend on the dataset or workload on the volume. The following table highlights typical deduplication savings for various content types:.
If you're just looking to free up space on a volume, consider using Azure File Sync with cloud tiering enabled. This allows you to cache your most frequently accessed files locally and tier your least frequently accessed files to the cloud, saving local storage space while maintaining performance.
For details, see Planning for an Azure File Sync deployment. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Oh I see what he's saying now.
I thought he meant it was "all-in-one" which it's not. But that still leads to the problem of you can't enable data deduplication on WS12E at all it's not an available role, just like Hyper-V is not an available role. I have created a single Storage Space from these 5 drives parity type and can now see them as E:. I have moved through dasboard all folders except the 'client backup' to the resulting drive.
How do I enable dedupe? Well, actually I would be interested in any method, including by logging in and using powershell or server manager. This is the case on a standard WS12 box with the dedupe feature not installed not installed by default , but in turn the feature seems to be absent fom the distribution. The name was not found. I don't know if i am allowed to post, but THIS works.
I just installed it and even the GUI is working. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? SQL Server.
0コメント