Shared folder deduplication schedule?

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Hello, Is there a schedule as to when files are deduplicated? I can't seem to find any in the documentation. Some background...we are (finally!) putting our VNXe 3100 into production. Using robocopy, I've started moving over the files from our old file server to the new CIFS share, with the lion's share of the move happening this past Sunday. Deduplication has been enabled for the entire Shared Folder. If I go to Storage-->Shared Folders-->Shared Folder Detail-->Shared Folder Capacity tab, the Used portion of the graph appears correct (right now, roughly 700 GB). But if I go to the Deduplication tab, it is much smaller (242 GB before, and less after). This would correspond with my initial test files/share I moved over before the past Sunday. It also says that the Last Scan was invariably right as I logged into the Unisphere web admin, though the Status has been Idle. It's not a major issue, but I'd like to know when I can expect dedupe to occur so that we have an idea of how much storage savings we can expect. Thanks, CC

mpgordon · Answer

The following document describes the deduplication and compression policy criteria. https://support1.emc.com/docu35603_White-Paper:-EMC-VNXe-File-Deduplication-and-Compression.pdf

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