Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 R2

Mike.Resseler@Veeam.com
Deduplication?
Installation - Config
Architecture
VDI!
Results / Conclusions
More Tips
What is Deduplication?
(wikipedia)
In-line versus Post Process
Source versus Target
File-, Block- or Chunk-Based
Picture: flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/
Single Instance Storage
Hard Links
Planning
Great:
{ File share | Virtualization Files | OS deploy files | Backup Files }
Maybe:
{ LOB | Web Servers | HPC |Static content providers }
Poor:
{ Hyper-V hosts | WSUS | SQL / Exchange Servers | Files > 1TB}
Installation
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
Windows Server 2012
1 single CPU 4GB Ram - SATA
GUI Based
Through Server Manager
PowerShell
Import-Module ServerManager
Add-WindowsFeature name FS-Data-Deduplication
Import-Module Deduplication
Video: Enable Dedup
Can it be duplicated?
Empty volume?
Resources?
Unsupported Config?
3 Days default (last modified)
Schedule: every hour
Exclusions: edb | jrs
Garbage collection /
data scrubbing on Saterday
Video: Enable Volume - GUI
Video: Enable Volume - GUI
Architecture
Filter Driver
Service Based (ddpsvc)
Optimization
Scrubbing
Garbage Collection
Jobs
Video: Start-DedupJob
Settings | Policies
Settings
Decisions
PowerShell
PowerShell
Get-command Module
Deduplication
Video: PowerShell
VDI!
Overview
Why?
How?
Conclusions
Benefits
Picture: flickr.com/photos/glasgows/
Picture: flickr.com/photos/drmartin/
Capacity optimization
Scale & Performance
Reliability & Data integrity
Management w/ Familiar Tools
BranchCache
Failover Clusters
DFS Replication
SIS: No!
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