ONTAP 9 Manuals ( CA08871-402 )

Manage aggregate-level background deduplication on ETERNUS AX/AC series

Aggregate-level deduplication eliminates duplicate blocks across volumes belonging to the same aggregate. You can perform aggregate-level deduplication in the background on ETERNUS AX/AC series. The feature is enabled by default for all newly created volumes and all upgraded volumes with volume background deduplication turned on.

About this task

The operation is triggered automatically when a large enough percentage of the change log has been populated. No schedule or policy is associated with the operation.

ETERNUS AX users can also run the aggregate-level deduplication scanner to eliminate duplicates of existing data across volumes in the aggregate. You can use the storage aggregate efficiency cross-volume-dedupe start command with the -scan-old-data=true option to start the scanner:

cluster-1::> storage aggregate efficiency cross-volume-dedupe start -aggregate aggr1 -scan-old-data true

Deduplication scanning can be time-consuming. You might want to run the operation in off-peak hours.

Aggregate-level background deduplication is sometimes referred to as cross-volume background deduplication.

Step
  1. Manage aggregate-level background deduplication on ETERNUS AX/AC series:

    If you want to…​ Use this command

    Enable aggregate-level background deduplication

    volume efficiency modify -vserver <vserver_name\> -volume <vol_name\> -cross-volume-background-dedupe true

    Disable aggregate-level background deduplication

    volume efficiency modify -vserver <vserver_name\> -volume <vol_name\> -cross-volume-background-dedupe false

    Display aggregate-level background deduplication status

    aggregate efficiency cross-volume-dedupe show

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