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Stephan G
Brass Contributor
Jan 07, 2019

SharePoint 2013 - Remote Blob Storage and Deduplication / Shredded Storage Migration

Hi there,   i only found 2 blogs mentioning that this is possible. But is it also supported? Anyone is using this configuration?   I want to move most of our sitecollections "to" Remote Blob Stor...
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Stephan G's avatar
Stephan G
Brass Contributor
Jan 12, 2019

Thanks Doug for your response.

 

Do you have any input for the deduplication of the BLOB files?

Trevor Seward's avatar
Trevor Seward
MVP
Jan 13, 2019
Dedupe would be a product of the RBS provider and/or file system (e.g. NTFS dedupe).

I'd ask why you'd be using RBS. It is largely irrelevant, now.
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    Stephan G
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 19, 2019

    Hi Trevor,

     

    why do you mean it's irrelavant?

    The deduplication feature will save me (if allowed) about 2 TB of space and the RBS feature will help me to stay within the 200GB DB size

    We are having SharePoint 2013 on prem with 4TB+ data and mostly office files 2mb+.

    Sorry for the late response .. i did not get any mail

     

    Best regards

    Stephan

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      Trevor Seward
      MVP
      Jan 19, 2019
      General usage scenarios support is 4TB. It's all about storage performance. There is no 200GB "limit" (except with RBS, there is a _hard limit_ of 200GB; your un-deduped is the size you need to calculate). Having run many farms with CDBs in excess of 1TB, as long as your storage subsystem isn't made of just a couple 7200 RPM consumer SATA drives, you're likely fine to meet the 4TB IOPS requirements.
      • Stephan G's avatar
        Stephan G
        Brass Contributor
        Jan 20, 2019

        Hi Trevor,

         

        i know these limits are recommendations from MS and i can deliver the IOPS at the moment.

        200GB limit in a RBS enabled content DB should be easy to achieve.

         

        I came to RBS from an archiving project. 

        My main focus is on deduplicating SharePoint files to make the "archived project sites" available to our users until they get deleted after 5 years after project closing. (which is a requirement of our management)

        On the other hand i want to use Azure Site Recovery but the the SQL Server containing the content DBs was not "compatible" because of too high IOPS.

         

         

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