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HCI Operations Guide—Managing and Monitoring the Solution Infrastructure Life Cycle
Notes, cautions, and warnings Copyright Introduction Day 1 operations Managing and monitoring clusters with Windows Admin Center
Managing and monitoring clusters with Windows Admin Center
Overview
Install Windows Admin Center
Add the HCI cluster connection
Access the HCI cluster
View server details
View drive details
Managing and monitoring volumes
Enabling data deduplication on Storage Spaces Direct
Monitoring and managing VMs
Managing virtual switches
Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Windows Admin Center Updates and maintenance

Enabling data deduplication on Storage Spaces Direct

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 your deduplication activities run in an optimized way, refer to the following Microsoft Advanced Data Deduplication settings: Advanced Data Deduplication settings | Microsoft Docs.

    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.