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Old Checkbox Value New Checkbox Value Expected Behavior
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 Table 5.
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Deduplication and does not fail.
New volumes are created with the Data Reduction Profile according to Table 5.
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Deduplication.
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 Table 5.
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 Profile based on Table 4.
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Compression 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 8. 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.
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 Specified
Migration succeeds. The volumes on the
destination inherit the destination storage
container's default Data Reduction Profile.
Create a Storage Container Using the Storage View
Create a storage container to define storage options for virtual volumes (VVols).
About this task
NOTE: Storage Center supports a maximum of 50 storage containers per Storage Center.
NOTE: If you use the method described in the following steps to create a storage container, the resulting storage
container is empty and does not have any VVols datastores associated with it. If you use the Create Datastore method
instead, you can create a storage container at the same time and associate the new datastore to the storage container.
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