Windows 2008 R2 Upgrade to 2012 and then use of Deduplication feature

All Replies

• Wednesday, February 06, 2013 6:04 AM

  Moderator

   

   
  

  0

  Hi,

  You can start reading this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831700.aspx#BKMK_Step1

  not good candidates for deduplication:
  
  

  • Hyper-V hosts
  • VDI VHDs
  • WSUS
  • Servers running SQL Server or Exchange Server
  • Files approaching or larger than, 1 TB in size

  Please also refer to the below two articles for more information about Windows 2012 Deduplication:

  Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/uspartner_ts2team/archive/2012/10/08/data-deduplication-in-windows-server-2012.aspx

  Introduction to Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/05/21/introduction-to-data-deduplication-in-windows-server-2012.aspx

  Regards,

  Yan Li

  ---

  Cataleya Li
  TechNet Community Support

  

  • Marked As Answer by Greg B Roberts Friday, February 08, 2013 4:59 AM
  •  
  • Reply
  • Quote

   
• Friday, February 08, 2013 5:00 AM

   

   
  

  0

  Thanks

  I am going to assume implicit in your answer is that the reasons for deduplication are stand alone.

  And the fact that a 2008 R2 server was upgraded to Server 2012 is does not factor into the decision.

  Regards

  Greg

  • Reply
  • Quote