data reduction / de-duplication

Are the chunks created by the cleversafe IDA specific to the content and does cleversafe avoid storing redundant chunks to save space?

Put another way... if I copied the same file 10,000 times to the iSCSI lun, would cleversafe be smart enough to optimize that storage of that file?

David,

The "slices" created by the IDA in the initial release are non deduplicated.  It is something that we talked about adding as an option as some point in the future.

A short term alternative would be to use some kind of existing de-duplication software prior to storing files on a dsNet.

Chris Gladwin