Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

Change the Data Reduction Type for a NAS Volume

Change the data reduction type (Deduplication or Deduplication and Compression) for a NAS volume.

1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System view, expand NAS Volumes and select a NAS volume.
4. In the NAS Volume panel, click Edit Settings.
   The Edit NAS Volume Settings dialog box opens.
5. Click Data Reduction.
6. For the Data Reduction Method field, select the type of data reduction (Deduplication or Deduplication and Compression) to perform.
   Deduplication and compression will usually save more space, but more resources will be used during data reduction and during reads of data that was compressed, possibly reducing performance.
7. Click OK.