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Old Checkbox Value New Checkbox Value Expected Behavior
Clone/Fast Clone of VM to the same storage container follows rules of Table 6.
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Deduplication and does not fail.
New volumes are created with the Data Reduction Prole according to Table 6.
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Deduplication.
Deduplication Enabled Deduplication Disabled
Data Reduction Prole 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 Table 6.
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Deduplication and might fail if the
VM Storage Policy is now noncompliant.
New volumes are created with the Data Reduction Prole based on Table 5.
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Compression if Compression is
enabled or with the Data Reduction Prole set to None.
The following table describes the expected behavior for datastores related to migration.
Table 9. 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 Prole.
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
Specied
Migration succeeds. The volumes on the
destination inherit the destination storage
container's default Data Reduction Prole.
Storage Container Compression =
Supported
Storage Container Compression = Not
Supported
VM Storage Policy = Compression Enabled
Migration fails because the source VM
Storage Policy is invalid on the destination.
Storage Container Compression =
Supported
Default Data Reduction Policy on Container
= Compression
Storage Container Compression = Not
Supported
VM Storage Policy = None Specied
Migration succeeds. The volumes on the
destination inherit the destination storage
container's default Data Reduction Prole.
Create a Storage Container
Create a storage container to dene storage options for virtual volumes (VVols).
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NOTE
: Storage Center supports a maximum of 50 storage containers per Storage Center.
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