Deduplication (Windows)

Windows 2012 introduced deduplication as a new filesystem feature.

PowerShell Commandlets

Force Deduplication Job

Start-DedupJob D: –Type Optimization -Memory 30

This starts a new Deduplication job and will consume up to 30% of the system memory.

Check Dedup Job Status

Get-DedupJob

Check Dedup Savings

Get-DedupStatus

Reference

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848450.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/klince/archive/2012/04/02/fun-with-deduplication-in-windows-8-server.aspx