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How to Enable Compression and Deduplication on an Existing Volume

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Storage efficiency

Description

This example adds compression and deduplication savings to an existing FlexVol volume with data already on the volume.
 
This example includes the steps involved if you want to compress and deduplicate the data already on disk, in addition to the new writes to disk. 

 

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