Reference Guide

Steps
1. Go to Volumes > Inventory.
2. Click the volume on which to enable data deduplication.
3. In the optional features, switch the ON button to enable deduplication and compression on that volume.
The Enable Deduplication window is displayed.
4. Click Start and select Hyper-V from the drop-down list.
5. Click Enable Deduplication.
Deduplication is enabled and the Storage Spaces Direct volume is compressed.
Monitoring and managing virtual machines
You can use Windows Admin Center to monitor and manage the virtual machines that are hosted on the HCI cluster.
To access the virtual machines that are hosted on the HCI cluster, click the cluster name and, in the left pane, select Virtual machines. In
the right pane, the Summary tab and the Inventory tab are displayed.
The Summary tab provides the following information about the virtual machine environment of the HCI cluster:
• Total number of virtual machines, their state, and alerts
• Host and guest CPU utilization
• Host and guest memory utilization
• Virtual machine total IOPS, latency, and throughput information
Figure 11. Virtual machines: Summary tab
The Inventory tab provides a list of the virtual machines that are hosted on the HCI cluster and provides access to manage the virtual
machines.
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