I'm reviewing the features of 6.2 and trying to decide if its worth the
new-version-risk for one of our smaller branches.
We are a 5.5 shop, so I'm a little behind on the details of the new
features.

The manual says that deduplication is available only on storage pools
using a File device class. (many times!)

However, I noticed this other entry under Virtual Volumes:

When you copy or move data from a deduplicated storage pool to a
non-deduplicated
storage pool that uses virtual volumes, the data is reconstructed. When
you copy or
move data to a "deduplicated storage pool that uses virtual volumes" the
data is deduplicated.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r2/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/t_network_virtualvol.html

>From that, I am inferring you can use a device class of "server" as well.
This would be a huge for us if this were true.
Can anyone confirm or deny this?  Is this just a documentation hiccup?


Regards,
Shawn
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