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Does the deduplication process target only locally available data

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Aggregate efficiency

Answer

  • Yes, when run the command 'storage aggregate efficiency cross-volume-dedupe start -aggregate <aggr_name> -scan-old-data true', it targets only the data that is locally available within the specified aggregate. 
  • Tiered data is not included in this process.

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