NetApp Deduplication and Compression

NetApp deduplication combines the benefits of granularity, performance, and resiliency to provide you with a significant advantage in the race to provide for ever-increasing storage capacity demands.

NetApp data compression is a new feature that compresses data as it is written to NetApp FAS and V-Series storage systems. Like deduplication, NetApp data compression works in both SAN and NAS environments, and is application and storage tier agnostic.

Key Points:

• Utilize minimal system resources - primary data, backup data, and archival data can all be deduplicated with nominal impact on data center operations.
• Schedule deduplication to occur during off-peak times, applications can sustain critical performance but still realize significantly reduced storage capacity requirements.
• Install our simple, command-based deduplication feature in minutes. Once deduplication is enabled and scheduled, no other action is required.
• Select which datasets to deduplicate with our tools to evaluate those datasets and help point out the areas that will provide the greatest return.
• Perform a full byte-for-byte validation before removing any duplicate data for worry-free deduplication.