You can use deduplication for volumes that use qtree SnapMirror. Qtree SnapMirror does not automatically initiate a deduplication operation at the completion of every individual qtree SnapMirror transfer. You can set up a deduplication schedule independent of your qtree SnapMirror transfer schedule.
When using qtree SnapMirror with deduplication, you must consider the following information:
- You can enable deduplication on the source system, the destination system, or both systems.
- Even when deduplication is enabled on the source system, duplicate blocks are sent to the destination system. Therefore, no network bandwidth savings is achieved.
- To recognize space savings on the destination system, you should run deduplication on the destination after the qtree SnapMirror transfer is complete.
- Qtree SnapMirror recognizes deduplicated blocks as changed blocks. Therefore, when you run deduplication on an existing qtree SnapMirror source system for the first time, all the deduplicated blocks are transferred to the destination system. This process might result in a transfer several times larger than the regular transfers.
When using qtree SnapMirror with deduplication, you should ensure that qtree SnapMirror uses only the minimum number of Snapshot copies that it requires. To ensure this minimum, you should retain only the latest Snapshot copies.
