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Table 9. Expected Behavior for Compression and Deduplication Checkboxes on Storage Container
Old Checkbox Value New Checkbox Value Expected Behavior
Compression Enabled Compression Disabled Data Reduction Profile of existing volumes remains unchanged.
Compliance check warns that the VM is not compliant with storage
container.
Clone/Fast Clone of VM to the same storage container follows rules of
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Compression on page 181
and might fail if the VM Storage Policy is now noncompliant.
New volumes are created with the Data Reduction Profile set to None.
Compression Disabled Compression Enabled Data Reduction Profile of existing volumes remains unchanged.
Clone/Fast Clone of VM to the same storage container follows rules of
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Compression on page 181
and does not fail.
New volumes are created with the Data Reduction Profile according to
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Compression on page 181.
Deduplication Disabled Deduplication Enabled
Data Reduction Profile of existing volumes remains unchanged.
Clone/Fast Clone of VM to the same storage container follows rules of
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Deduplication on page 181
and does not fail.
New volumes are created with the Data Reduction Profile according to
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Deduplication on page 181.
Deduplication Enabled Deduplication Disabled
Data Reduction Profile of existing VVols remains unchanged.
Compliance check warns that the VM is not compliant with the storage
container.
Clone/Fast Clone of VM to the same storage container follows rules of
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Deduplication on page 181
and might fail if the VM Storage Policy is now noncompliant.
New volumes are created with the Data Reduction Profile based on
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Compression on page 181
if Compression is enabled or with the Data Reduction Profile set to None.
The following table describes the expected behavior for datastores related to migration.
Table 10. Expected Behavior Related to Migration
Source Datastore Destination Datastore Expected Behavior
Storage Container Deduplication =
Supported
Storage Container Deduplication
= Supported
Destination VM Storage Policy =
Deduplication Enabled
Migration succeeds. The volume on
the destination is created with the
Deduplication with Compression Data
Reduction Profile.
Storage Container Deduplication =
Supported
Storage Container Deduplication = Not
Supported
Destination VM Storage Policy =
Deduplication Enabled
Migration fails because the source
VM Storage Policy is invalid on the
destination.
Storage Container Deduplication =
Supported
Default Data Reduction Policy on
Container = Deduplication with
Compression
Storage Container Deduplication = Not
Supported
Destination VM Storage Policy = None
Specified
Migration succeeds. The volumes on the
destination inherit the destination storage
container's default Data Reduction
Profile.
182 Managing Virtual Volumes With Storage Manager