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Table 7. Expected Behavior for Compression and Deduplication Checkboxes on Storage Container
Old Checkbox Value New Checkbox Value Expected Behavior
Compression Enabled Compression Disabled Data Reduction Prole 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 Table
4. Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Compression and might fail if
the VM Storage Policy is now noncompliant.
New volumes are created with the Data Reduction Prole set to None.
Compression Disabled Compression Enabled Data Reduction Prole of existing volumes remains unchanged.
Clone/Fast Clone of VM to the same storage container follows rules of Table
4. Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Compression and does not
fail.
New volumes are created with the Data Reduction Prole according to Table
4. Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Compression.
Deduplication Disabled Deduplication Enabled
Data Reduction Prole 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 Prole according to Table
5. Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Deduplication.
Deduplication Enabled Deduplication Disabled
Data Reduction Prole 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 Prole based on Table 4.
Expected Behavior for New VM Creation with Compression if Compression is
enabled or with the Data Reduction Prole 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 Prole.
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.
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