Quantcast
Channel: Jay Connor – HappySCCM
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 107

Set your SSD up for Hyper-V Data Deduplication

$
0
0

Data Deduplication Diagram

If you want to use your speedy new SSD to run Hyper-v storage is expensive, Data Deduplication is the solution to this letting you run multiple VMs using the space of pretty much 1 server! It is a feature of Server 2012 that can also be added to Windows .1 with the right know how.

First things first, this feature cannot be enabled on your Operating System partition so you will want to limit your OS partition, you should do this initially when setting up Windows as resizing the SSD to your desired size after installing Windows can be problematic due to data being ‘stuck’. I use 70GB of 256 for my OS partitions and the rest for VMs.

1. Download the required files from https://send.estate/s?e=8d23a0136867ae4

2.  Extract the files and execute the following powershell commands

dism /online /add-package /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-VdsInterop-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-VdsInterop-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab  /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-FileServer-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-FileServer-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab  /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-Dedup-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.cab /packagepath:Microsoft-Windows-Dedup-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~en-US~6.3.9600.16384.cab

dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:Dedup-Core /all

3. Enable Data Deduplication on the Hyper-V partition

Enable-DedupVolume -Volume D: -UsageType HyperV

 

Thanks to Teh Wei King for the info


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 107

Trending Articles