About capacity saving

Ops Center Administrator User Guide

Version
11.0.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-99ADM001-21

Capacity saving reduces the used capacity of volumes.

Ops Center Administrator enables you to use capacity saving when you create or update a volume.

A capacity saving volume is a dynamically provisioned volume (DP-Vol) that is capable of compression or both deduplication and compression.

Ops Center Administrator offers the following capacity saving options:

  • Compression

    Compression allows you to reduce the used capacity of your volume.

  • Deduplication and compression

    Deduplication identifies duplicate data blocks to remove redundancy.

  • No

    No data compression or deduplication is done.