it_user127905

Senior SAN Engineer with 501-1,000 employees
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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About 9 years ago

Contributed a review of VNX [EOL]: The auto-tiering helps in the speed of data access.

Over 9 years ago

Commented on Stability, replication, deduplication, virtual library & ddboost are valuable but deduplication could be better.

The deduplication rate that you get is totally dependent on the type of data you are backing up. In our environment some of our backups are getting a dedup rate of over 30x (Veeam) some over 90x (Backup Exec) and other data (Oracle DBs) we get only 5 - 8x.

Over 10 years ago

Answered a question: Can anyone share their real-life deduplication ratios using Data Domain?

The dedup ratio you will get in your environment is totally dependent on the type of data you are backing up. In our environment we are getting a 9.5:1 dedup ratio. We get a very good dedup on our backup exec and veeam backups, but our Oracle backups the ratio is much…

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