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mkozak
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Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:34 pm

I set up a vSphere Data Recovery vm with a RDM that was way too large. I didn't realize how much space the deduplication would save, and I'd like to be able to recover some of this space. Any suggestions on how I could copy the data from this into a smaller RDM.
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Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:53 am

As far as I understood RDM is on the DD correct?
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mkozak
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Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:35 pm

Actually the deduplication was done through the vmware data recovery VSA. What I ended up doing was attaching a second smaller RDM drive and copying the data over to it.
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Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:55 am

I`m sorry, but I`m not 100% sure how starwind is involved in this, would you please clarify?
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