IBM System Storage N series with VMware vSphere 4.1

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Deduplication with VMware vSphere 4.1

This chapter provides information about Advanced Single Instance Storage (A-SIS) deduplication and the benefits of enabling it. It also guides you step-by-step on how to set it up for a VMware vSphere 4.1 environment.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•A-SIS deduplication overview

•Storage consumption on virtualized environments

•When to run deduplication

•The effect of snapshots in deduplicated volumes

•Enabling deduplication on a volume

13.1 A-SIS deduplication overview

N series deduplication is ...

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