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Copper Contributor

Sep 01, 2018

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/Dat...

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Paul van Drunick

Copper Contributor

Sep 07, 2018

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

gwblok

Iron Contributor

Jun 23, 2019

Paul van Drunick

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.

matsmcp
Iron Contributor
May 16, 2020
gwblok Jeff-Woolsey

Disk dedup should be included. Proxmox seems to be able to so it makes Hyper-V less capable than the competition.
It also makes it more expensive to operate since I now can't have as many VM:s on the same storage volume and having to pay for enterprise to virtualize linux VM:s? Well that doesn't quite compute either