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Understanding OneBlox and OneSystem
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Click on ‘ Discover OneBlox ’ which can be seen in the text above the web console display. This
will open a new web page with the OneBlox on your network and enable you to select the
appropriate OneBlox.
5.8 - How do I Enable Variable-length Deduplication for a Share?
Within a OneBlox cluster, individual shares and exports may now be configured to utilize variable-
length deduplication. This is an option at the time new shares and/or exports are created.
Variable-length deduplication is well suited for backup/recovery applications. Traditional file
serving and unstructured data, including virtual servers, should not enable this deduplication
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Variable and fixed-length deduplication are the two main types of data deduplication. Fixed-length
deduplication uses the same segment-length and offers good data reduction ratios for information
that is consistent in size. Variable-length uses a sliding window to determine the optimal
boundaries for deduplication; this feature, combined with compression, enables Exablox
customers to realize data reduction ratios up to 20:1 and to store as much as 4.4 PB of effective
storage in a single global file system.
Within a given OneBlox Ring, for each share the type of deduplication can be selected.
Additionally, compression can be turned on or off at the time the share or export are created.
5.9 - How do I Enable Compression for a given Share?
Within a OneBlox cluster, compression can be enabled on newly created SMB and NFS shares/
exports. The default storage policy has compression enabled, and compression can be disabled at
the time the share/export is created.