VMware® has become one of the more popular use cases we’ve seen for NetApp deduplication. Shortly after the release of deduplication with Data ONTAP® 7.2.2, customers began reporting great success deduplicating VMware virtual machines (VMs), both in traditional VI3 environments and also emerging VDI environments.

Naturally, we wanted to take a closer look and discover why they were so excited. The answer came quickly: They were consistently seeing space savings of 50% or more with virtually no performance impact. Some were obtaining storage savings as high as 90%.

Easily identify and eliminate duplicate blocks, and change the data pointers so that all the duplicates are redirected to a single data block. NetApp deduplication isn't limilted to a single application (eg backup) as with other deduplication products.

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