vSAN free proxmox - zero documentation on deduplication, zfs implementation details

[intel]

Hi, I'm testing vSAN FREE Proxmox KVM image and struggling to find any recent documentation on:
- Deduplication
- ZFS implementation
- Optimizations for iSCSI and/or NFS

Reddit for example links to a best practices document written in 2019 - where vSAN had Structured Log caching (for some reason it was disabled/removed from latest version; a shame because that feature I wanted to use). https://www.starwindsoftware.com/best-p ... practices/

I'm trying to use vSAN Free to host my proxmox virtual machines. There is no documentation in the knowledge base about how vSAN does deduplication or where to enable it, I have checked the web interface and there is no settings (using Trial license so I expect to see all features with it).

[*] https://www.starwindsoftware.com/best-p ... uplication
[*] https://www.starwindsoftware.com/best-practices/?s=zfs

It seems clear to me that ZFS inline deduplication is not enabled by default by output of this command. The volume too.

[yaroslav (staff)]

Greetings,

You can use StarWind storage as NFS share or iSCSI-connected storage. See the script for the replicated iSCSI target viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6852&p=37208&hilit=HINT8#p37208
You are right, there's still no deduplication there; it is on the roadmap.
p.s. Thanks for your feedback!