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Storage : Volumes : Managing volumes : Running deduplication
Running deduplication
You can run deduplication immediately after creating a volume or schedule deduplication to run at a specified time.
Before you begin 
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Deduplication license must be enabled on the storage system.
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Deduplication must be enabled on the volume.
About this task 
Deduplication is a background process that consumes system resources during the operation; therefore, it might impact other operations that are in progress. You have to abort deduplication before you can perform any other operation.
Steps 
1.
From the Home tab, double-click the appropriate storage system.
2.
In the navigation pane, click Storage > Volumes.
3.
Select the volume for which you want to run deduplication.
4.
Click Storage Efficiency.
5.
In the Storage Efficiency dialog box, if you are running deduplication on the volume for the first time, run deduplication on the entire volume data by selecting Scan Entire Volume.
6.
Click Start.
Related reference 
Volumes window

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