You are planning on implementing a new SAN on AFF A400 controllers. The data set consists of unique 1 KB files that will be encrypted before being written to the SAN.
In this scenario, which ONTAP inline storage efficiency will provide 4:1 savings for this workload?
In this scenario, compaction is the correct ONTAP inline storage efficiency feature for achieving 4:1 savings on a workload consisting of unique 1 KB files that will be encrypted. Compaction works by reducing the amount of physical storage required by aggregating smaller data chunks into a single storage block, thus optimizing storage usage. This is particularly effective with small file sizes such as 1 KB, enabling substantial space savings.
Compaction is the right answer
Compaction Compaction reduces the amount of physical storage required for a volume by taking data chunks that are stored in 4 KB blocks, but that are less than 4 KB in size, and combining them into a single block. Compaction takes place while data is still in memory so unnecessary space is never consumed on disks. It is enabled by default on AFF and ASA systems. You need to manually enable compaction on FAS systems. https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/concepts/storage-efficiency-overview.html