Windows Server 2012 Disk Dedupe

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TechNet webast by Mike Resseler. Session recording: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/windows-server-2012-data-deduplication.

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Data DeduplicationWindows Server 2012

Mike ResselerSenior Technical ConsultantInfront Consulting Group@mikeresselerMike.Resseler@InfrontConsulting.com

Deduplication?

Architecture

Installation - Config

Results / Conclusions

More Tips

Data Deduplication?

Say what?

The term deduplication refers generally to eliminating duplicate or redundant information (wikipedia)

In-line versus Post Process

Source versus Target

File-, Block- or Chunk-Based

Architecture

How it works

Filter Driver

Service Based (ddpsvc)

Optimization

Scrubbing

Garbage Collection

1.01.0

A B C

X Y

A B C

M N

ReparseSparse

A B C X Y M N

ReparseSparse

Installation & Config

Let’s use this

Windows Server 2012

1 single CPU – 4GB Ram - SATA

GUI BasedThrough Server Manager

PowerShellImport-Module ServerManagerAdd-WindowsFeature –name FS-Data-Deduplication

MBR or GPT / NTFS

1.0Per Volume

NO CSVs

Shared Storage & MS Failover Clustering

NO ReFS

NO Remotely-Mapped Drives

Can it be duplicated?

Empty volume?

Resources?

Unsupported Config?

Great: { File share | Virtualization Files | OS deploy files | Backup Files }

Maybe: { LOB | Web Servers | HPC }

Poor: { Hyper-V hosts | WSUS | SQL / Exchange Servers}

5 Age default (last modified)

Schedule: every hour

No exclusions

Garbage collection / data scrubbing on Saterday

Enable & Settings

Demo

Results & Conclusions

Good? Poor? Usable? Awesome? I want It?

Results

Demo

Benefits

1.0

1.0

50-60% - General

30-50% - Documents

70-80% - Application

80-95% - VHD Library

Performance hit?

Reliable?

Capacity optimization

Scale & Performance

Reliability & Data integrity

Bandwidth Efficiency w/ BranchCache

Management w/ Familiar Tools

Plan!

Take Backups!

DDPEval <VolumePath:> Examples: C:\> DDPEVAL.EXE \\Server\Testshare C:\> DDPEVAL.EXE E:\Test\ C:\> DDPEVAL.EXE F: Will produce output similar to the following:

Data Deduplication Savings Evaluation Tool Copyright 2011-2012 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Evaluated folder: E:\Test Processed files: 34 Processed files size: 12.03MB Optimized files size: 4.02MB Space savings: 8.01MB Space savings percent: 66 Optimized files size (no compression): 11.47MB Space savings (no compression): 571.53KB Space savings percent (no compression): 4 Files with duplication: 2 Files excluded by policy: 20 Files excluded by error: 0

© 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

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