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Hyper-V Best Practices
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Hyper-V Best Practices

by Benedict Berger
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
172 pages
4h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Data deduplication

Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V offers built-in deduplication at no extra charge. It's a great way to reduce your storage capacity footprint with very little configuration. However, data deduplication still comes at a price—it requires additional I/O capacity. Therefore, on a general use file server, it will not affect hot data until it's reached a certain file change age. Besides the I/O-hit, volumes with active deduplication will fragment more easily causing single file operations taking longer on deduped volumes. Hyper-V takes some precautions to avoid a big performance hit, that is, every block referenced more than 100 times will be written a second time. Real-life experiences tell us that the overall gains in saved ...

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