De-Duplication it’s a new feature which is included in Windows Server 2012 and you can get it in Windows Storage section and today we will see how we can work with that… this is a good features which is introduced by Microsoft within the OS – I was bit surprised but it’s very impressive, basically it will save space in case we have same files lying in the same volume.
I will show you how we can enable that – But this Article is part -2 of my Last Post were I have shown How to work with Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 Click Here
Again I will give special thanks to Microsoft Tech Lab
Ok Now we will see how we can enable De-Duplication on a Volume
We will follow the steps as per the LAB – Now we will open a Powershell from a Windows 8 Machine and enable the Deduplication on a volume which on Windows Server 2012.
I have opened ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) in Power Shell it has so many handy features and i love to use it
So i have executed a command as below…
Invoke-command -ComputerName WS2012VMDC -ScriptBlock { Get-WindowsFeature *Deduplication* | Install-WindowsFeature}
After that we will execute a command as
Invoke-command -ComputerName WS2012VMDC -ScriptBlock { Enable-DedupVolume e:}
Invoke-command -ComputerName WS2012VMDC -ScriptBlock { Get-DedupStatus e:}
After running these commands – i will login into the Windows Server 2012 Machine and open Server Manager
In Server Manager Select File and Storage Services and click Disks
Now we will Select the Virtual Disk Pool
Right Click on Volume E: and click on Configure Data Deduplication and it open a Wizard
You can see the Deduplication is enabled as we have ran the Powershell commands from Windows 8 Machine and it also set to a defualt value of Days as 5 and now we will change it to 0
To do a Testing we will copy a file from C drive to volume E:
Copy a file in our example boot.wim will copy to volume E:
File is Copying to Volume E: – New Look in Windows Server 2012
File is copied and now create a copy of that
Ok Now – i will open a ISE and run a Command as
Start-DedupJob -Type Optimization -Volume E: and hit enter
Now to check the Progress – run a command as Get-DedupJob
After few seconds run the same command just to verify the Job is done
Hummm Now – Lets see the status by running a command as Get-DedupStatus
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