How to enable inline deduplication on Non-AFF (All Flash FAS) aggregates
Applies to
- Non-AFF
- ONTAP 9
- Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3
Description
This article describes how to enable inline deduplication on Non-AFF (All Flash FAS) aggregates
When enabling inline deduplicaiton on non-AFF systems, you are not seeing any savings returned.
On Non-AFF systems, inline deduplicaiton is disabled by default. To enable inline deduplication on volumes residing within an HDD/all-SSD (non-AFF) aggregate, the following hidden option needs to be set from the nodeshell : sis.idedup_allow_non_aff_hya on
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For more information, see TR-3966: NetApp Data Compression, Deduplication and Data Compaction Data ONTAP 8.3.1 and Later.