Hi Tim, thanks for sharing your dedup experience. Especially for Virtualization, having a good pool of experience will help a lot of people.
So you see a dedup ratio of 1.29 for two installations of Windows Server 2008 on the same ZFS backing store, if I understand you correctly. What dedup ratios do you see for the third, fourth and fifth server installation? Also, maybe dedup is not the only way to save space. What compression rate do you get? And: Have you tried setting up a Windows System, then setting up the next one based on a ZFS clone of the first one? Hope this helps, Constantin On 04/23/10 08:13 PM, tim Kries wrote:
Dedup is a key element for my purpose, because i am planning a central repository for like 150 Windows Server 2008 (R2) servers which would take a lot less storage if they dedup right.
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