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Unisphere and Unisphere Central 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

Apply Deduplication With Compression to a Volume

Apply Deduplication with Compression to reduce the size of the volume. Deduplication and compression run during daily Data Progression.

Prerequisites

Allow Data Reduction Selection must be enabled in the Preferences tab of the Edit Storage Center Settings dialog box.

About this task

NOTE The amount of space saved by Data Reduction is determined by the amount of data eligible for Data Reduction on the volume compared to the total amount of space used by that data on disk after Data Reduction.

Steps

  1. If you are connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the drop-down list in the left navigation pane of Unisphere Central.
  2. From the Storage iconSTORAGE menu, click Volumes.
    The Volumes view is displayed.
  3. In the Volumes view, select the volume you want to modify.
  4. Click Edit icon(Edit).
    The Edit Volume dialog box opens.
  5. Expand Data Reduction.
  6. From the Data Reduction Profile drop-down menu, select Deduplication with Compression.

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