QuestionQ43

Differentiate and apply foundational storage architectures and technologies

A customer has a Linux VM farm hosted on an HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 and is experiencing a very low deduplication ratio. Which filesystem type could be causing this?

Explanation

EXT3 can result in a low storage-level deduplication ratio because it does not use extent-based allocation. HPE’s filesystem comparison on deduplicated volumes reported EXT3 with the lowest deduplication ratio, while Btrfs performed similarly to EXT4 and XFS achieved the greatest space savings.

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