Deduplication for specific server types - OnTheKnows/A GitHub Wiki

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/install-enable

Install-WindowsFeature -ComputerName -Name FS-Data-Deduplication

Data Deduplication can effectively minimize the costs of a server application's data consumption by reducing the amount of disk space consumed by redundant data. Before enabling deduplication, it is important that you understand the characteristics of your workload to ensure that you get the maximum performance out of your storage. There are two classes of workloads to consider:

Recommended workloads that have been proven to have both datasets that benefit highly from deduplication and have resource consumption patterns that are compatible with Data Deduplication's post-processing model. We recommend that you always enable Data Deduplication on these workloads: General purpose file servers (GPFS) serving shares such as team shares, user home folders, work folders, and software development shares. Virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) servers. Virtualized backup applications, such as Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM). Workloads that might benefit from deduplication, but aren't always good candidates for deduplication. For example, the following workloads could work well with deduplication, but you should evaluate the benefits of deduplication first: General purpose Hyper-V hosts SQL servers Line-of-business (LOB) servers

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