Hello,
l have a 2 node Win 2012 R2 Hyper-V RDS Cluster hosting Pooled Virtual Desktops. The Cluster Shared Volume is presented directly from the EMC Fibre SAN to the Hyper-V hosts. I want to enable Deduplication on the CSV. All of the documentation suggests not doing this directly on the Hyper-V hosts, but creating a SOFS Cluster that presents the deduped disk to the Hyper-V hosts. This will add a level of complexity to the environment that I would like to avoid. Is the only reason for this possible performance issues? Can I enable dedupe directly on the Hyper-V hosts and the attached CSV volume using the powershell command Enable-DedupVolume C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1 –UsageType HyperV? What are the ramifications?
Thank you.