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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment

By : Martyn Coupland
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment

By: Martyn Coupland

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with data deduplication


Windows Server 2012 introduced the ability to enable data deduplication on a volume to save storage and reduce the storage requirements for a file server. Thinking of Configuration Manager, two distinct uses are available for data deduplication. The first is the source location of our applications, packages, software updates, and operating system media. The second use is on the distribution point.

Deduplication on the content source

Essentially our content source is pretty much a file server, so you would think this is the perfect candidate for storage savings using deduplication. However, deduplication uses reparse points in the storage of data. Configuration Manager does not support the use of content sources that are stored on reparse points, so this is not a good candidate for enabling deduplication.

Deduplication on the distribution point

The content library within Configuration Manager does do small scale deduplication by using single instance storage; however...