LSFS/Deduplication Update

david.buchanan · Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:35 am

Hi All,

I was after an update on when a few features for Starwinds may be coming out.

1 - Expanding a LSFS De-duplicated volume.
2 - Support for larger than 11TB.

My understanding from reading the forums is that LSFS does not appear to be production ready.

To give you an idea on my set-up/requirements. I have around 90TB of Veeam backups which I'm currently using with Server 2012 R2 Post-processing de-duplication. I'm looking for a was to do this de-duplication in-line.

I assume that Starwinds still does not support a volume this large? or does it?

Thanks,
David

darklight · Tue Dec 01, 2015 6:09 pm

AFAIK Veeam dedupes (compresses) it's own backups already. So you want to dedupe already compressed data once again?

Tue Dec 08, 2015 11:58 am

Hi guys, any further questions left here?

fbifido · Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:44 am

david.buchanan wrote:Hi All,
I have around 90TB of Veeam backups which I'm currently using with Server 2012 R2 Post-processing de-duplication. I'm looking for a was to do this de-duplication in-line.

Tarass, What would be a good recommended setup for David, with his current setup?

Thanks.

Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:51 pm

Unfortunately single LSFS device is limited by 11TB right now and not expandable yet (expected in the future builds), however, you can still create a couple of them. If you would like to use an in-line deduplication for VEEAM backups it would be better to disable deduplication in VEEAM and let StarWind LSFS do the job.