topic Re: AFA Dedupe VMware in Array Setup and Networking

AFA Dedupe VMware

clindy70 — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 00:41:17 GMT

I have a new AFA1000. I got it setup and have 6 - EXSI 6.5 hosts connected to it. This cluster of hosts has Windows 7/10 VDI's on it.

I have created a 1TB volume, ESX 5 performance policy with dedupe turned on. I can see some good de-duplication after migrating 4 - Windows 10 VDI's over to it. I see this from the SAN side/management interface.

In vSphere I am not seeing the savings on the volume. My question is should I see the savings???

(SAN shows 126gig in use, vSphere shows 307gig in use.)

Thanks!

Re: AFA Dedupe VMware

Nick_Dyer — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:14:36 GMT

Hello Chris,

No, VMware will not recognise or report the space savings that are achieved on the array side.

Re: AFA Dedupe VMware

clindy70 — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:25:05 GMT

Thanks! I am getting crazy de-dupe rates on this thing!!!

Re: AFA Dedupe VMware

Nick_Dyer — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 19:49:34 GMT

That's great! The majority of the workload must be VDI with those kids of dedupe savings?

Re: AFA Dedupe VMware

clindy70 — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:06:23 GMT

Yes Windows 7/Windows 10, 223 of them.