Administrator Guide

Delete a Volume Folder
A volume folder must be empty before it can be deleted. If the deleted volumes from the folder are in the Recycle Bin, the
volume folder is not considered empty and cannot be deleted.
Steps
1. Click the Storage view.
2. In the Storage pane, select a Storage Center.
3. Click the Storage tab.
4. In the Storage tab navigation pane, select the volume folder you want to delete.
5. In the right pane, click Delete. .
The Delete dialog box opens
6. Click OK to delete the folder.
Managing Data Reduction
Data Reduction uses compression and deduplication to decrease the amount of disk space used by volume data.
Compression reduces the amount of space used by a volume by encoding data. Deduplication finds duplicate pages and removes
them, conserving the disk space that would be used by additional copies. When deduplication is used, compression is also
applied to a volume.
Data Eligible for Data Reduction
To reduce the impact of data reduction on read and write operations, a limited amount of data is eligible for compression and
deduplication. Data Reduction Input limits the type of data that is eligible for data reduction. The following options are available
for Data Reduction Input:
● Inaccessible Snapshot Pages – Allows Data Reduction to process data frozen by a snapshot and made inaccessible by
new data written over the original data in the snapshot.
● All Snapshot Pages – Allows Data Reduction to process data frozen by a snapshot.
Change the Data Reduction Input
Change the type of data that compression and deduplication reduces.
Prerequisites
Data Reduction must be applied to the volume.
Steps
1. If the Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.
2. Click the Storage tab.
3. In the Storage tab navigation pane, select a volume.
4. In the right pane, click Edit Settings. The Edit Volume dialog box opens.
5. Click Edit Advanced Volume Settings.
The Edit Advanced Volume Settings dialog box opens.
6. In the Volumes view, select the volume you want to modify.
7. From the Data Reduction Input drop-down menu, select a Data Reduction input.
● Inaccessible Snapshot Pages – Data frozen by a snapshot that has become inaccessible because other data has been
written over it
● All Snapshot Pages – Data frozen by a snapshot
8. Click OK to close the Edit Advanced Volume Settings dialog box.
9. Click OK.
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