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Manage aggregate-level background deduplication on AFF systems

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Aggregate-level deduplication eliminates duplicate blocks across volumes belonging to the same aggregate. Beginning with ONTAP 9.3, you can perform aggregate-level deduplication in the background on AFF systems. The feature is enabled by default for all newly created volumes and all upgraded volumes with volume background deduplication turned on.

About this task

The operation is triggered automatically when a large enough percentage of the change log has been populated. No schedule or policy is associated with the operation.

Beginning with ONTAP 9.4, AFF users can also run the aggregate-level deduplication scanner to eliminate duplicates of existing data across volumes in the aggregate. You can use the storage aggregate efficiency cross-volume-dedupe start command with the -scan-old-data=true option to start the scanner:

cluster-1::> storage aggregate efficiency cross-volume-dedupe start -aggregate aggr1 -scan-old-data true

Deduplication scanning can be time consuming. You might want to run the operation in off-peak hours.

Note

Aggregate-level background deduplication is sometimes referred to as cross-volume background deduplication.

Learn more about storage aggregate efficiency cross-volume-dedupe start in the ONTAP command reference.

Steps

  1. Manage aggregate-level background deduplication on AFF systems:

    If you want to…​ Use this command

    Enable aggregate-level background deduplication

    volume efficiency modify -vserver <vserver_name\> -volume <vol_name\> -cross-volume-background-dedupe true

    Disable aggregate-level background deduplication

    volume efficiency modify -vserver <vserver_name\> -volume <vol_name\> -cross-volume-background-dedupe false

    Display aggregate-level background deduplication status

    aggregate efficiency cross-volume-dedupe show

Learn more about the commands described in this procedure in the ONTAP command reference.