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No deduplication on Hyper-V 2019 Core?
I'm previewing the 17744 version and to my disappointment I see no deduplication feature to activate in the Hyper-V Core.
Is this something to come in Hyper-V Core or must we use a full Standard/Datacenter 2019 version? would be very nice to have for VM storage.
Regards
- Jeff_Woolsey_MSFT
Microsoft
Thank you for your question. Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a focused enterprise class hypervisor. It does not include software defined networking or software defined storage. If you would like the software defined storage capabilities like deduplication, Remote direct memory access, storage spaces direct, then you should use Windows Server 2019 data center edition which includes all of these capabilities and so much more.
Jeff Woolsey
Hybrid Cloud
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your reaction. I was only curious if deduplication, not all software defined capabilities, at one time is part of the free Hyper-V version. I think this deduplication feature should be a standard feature in all Windows OS's. It will save a lot of disk space on all kind of devices (support the green approche by using less disks = less energy).
Well, maybe in the future... for now I will sacrifice a server license ;-)
Regards,
Paul
Agree. This is a huge miss for Microsoft. Data-DeDuplication missing from 2019 Hyper-V Server really lowers the value of the product. I just set it up on my new Server Hardware and installed 2019 Hyper-V Server to set up a ConfigMgr lab on, and then just to find out DeDuplication isn't available... really big bummer.
