Ferry fstelte

Previously when running Windows 8 or hyper-v server 2012R2 it would be easy to implement Deduplication on those workstations/servers by installing the deduplication binaries found in Windows Server 2012 R2 (as I described here). Being on Windows 10 and being a Windows Insider (in the fast ring!) I found it hard to use deduplication, there are some binaries that can be found on the internet coming from Windows Server 2016 tech preview.

I recently purchased a home lab server. After fiddling around with different hypervisors I decided to go with Hyper-V server 2012 R2. One of the benefits of using Windows Server 2012 R2 with the hyper-v Role installed is that an administrator can use data deduplication to reduce the used storage for the VHD(X) files on the storage system. Hyper-V server 2012 R2 natively. Reading a few articles on the internet I found a few describing how to get data deduplication on Windows 8.