Deduplication commands that are supported on vFiler units

There are several ways to run deduplication commands on vFiler units.

Note: All deduplication commands ensure vFiler boundary checks. This mechanism prevents any attempt to access storage that does not belong to the requesting vFiler unit.

You can run deduplication commands on a vFiler unit in the following ways:

Using CLI
Using rsh/SSH
- using the vFiler context
- using the vfiler run command

About running deduplication on a vFiler unit using the CLI
You can run deduplication on a vFiler unit using the command-line interface.
About running deduplication on a vFiler unit using rsh or SSH
You can run deduplication commands using rsh or SSH. In this case, the user request is routed to the network stack with IP address and IPspace of the destination vFiler unit.
How to set the maximum deduplication sessions per vFiler unit
You can specify the number of concurrent deduplication sessions that can run per vFiler unit using the option sis.max_vfiler_active_ops command.

Parent topic: Deduplication