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by cellardoor
Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:02 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: dedup doesnt work
Replies: 7
Views: 7215

Re: dedup doesnt work

after delete all the files from one starwind iscsi volume, Starwind data file size reminds unchanged, see attached screenshot.
by cellardoor
Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:43 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: dedup doesnt work
Replies: 7
Views: 7215

Re: dedup doesnt work

When we increase dedup block size to 16kb or greater, dedup stops working(sometimes the starwind file would grow to as much as double the actual data size). We are now noticing wildly different results when using different NTFS Allocation Unit sizes on the iscsi target volumes. It seems when we matc...
by cellardoor
Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:03 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: dedup doesnt work
Replies: 7
Views: 7215

dedup doesnt work

I connect to Starwind iscsi target with MS iscsi initiator from localhost, configured 'Deduplicated disk device", mount to windows as a 4 TB volume. the dedup feature doesnt work, starwind data file is the same size as my mounted iscsi volume. I use windows 2008 r2 64 bit and Starwind 5.8. Plea...