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E2E Deployment and Operations Guide with Scalable Networking (Windows)
About using this guide Deployment Introduction Solution Overview Solution Deployment Network integration overview Scalable Architecture Additional guidance for all configurations Deploying and Configuring a Host Cluster Persistent Memory for Windows Server HCI Day 1 operations Managing and monitoring clusters with Windows Admin Center
Managing and monitoring clusters with Windows Admin Center
Overview
Access the HCI cluster
View server details
View drive details
Managing and monitoring volumes
Creating volumes in Storage Spaces Direct Managing volumes
Enabling data deduplication on Storage Spaces Direct
Monitoring and managing VMs
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Enabling data deduplication on Storage Spaces Direct

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Enabling data deduplication on Storage Spaces Direct

  • Data deduplication helps to maximize free space on the volume by optimizing duplicated portions on the volume without compromising data fidelity or integrity.
    Note: To enable data deduplication on an HCI cluster, ensure that the data deduplication feature is enabled on all the cluster nodes. To enable the data deduplication feature, run the following PowerShell command:

    Install-WindowsFeature FS-Data-Deduplication



    Note: To ensure the deduplication activities run in an optimized way, see Microsoft recommended workload Determine which workloads are candidates for Data Deduplication and for Advanced Data Deduplication settings, see Advanced Data Deduplication settings.

    Enable data deduplication using WAC and compression on a Storage Spaces Direct volume as follows.

    1. Go to Volumes > Inventory.
    2. Click the volume on which to enable data deduplication.
    3. In the optional features, switch the ON button to enable deduplication and compression on that volume.
      The Enable Deduplication window is displayed.
    4. Click Start and select Hyper-V from the drop-down list.
    5. Click Enable Deduplication.
      Deduplication is enabled, and the Storage Spaces Direct volume is compressed.