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Assign a volume efficiency policy to a volume

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You can assign an efficiency policy to a volume to run deduplication or data compression operations by using the volume efficiency modify command.

Before you begin

Ensure that you create the volume efficiency policy before you assign it to a volume.

About this task

If an efficiency policy is assigned to a SnapVault secondary volume, only the volume efficiency priority attribute is considered when running volume efficiency operations. The job schedules are ignored and the deduplication operation is run when incremental updates are made to the SnapVault secondary volume.

Step

  1. Use the volume efficiency modify command to assign a policy to a volume.

Example

The following command assigns the volume efficiency policy named new_policy to volume VolA:

volume efficiency modify -vserver vs1 -volume VolA -policy new_policy

Learn more about volume efficiency modify in the ONTAP command reference.