Unable to create Deduplication and Compression policies on ESA datastore.
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Unable to create Deduplication and Compression policies on ESA datastore.

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Article ID: 391398

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Products

VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

When trying to create storage policy with deduplication & compression on vSAN ESA 8.0, an error will display "Datastore does not match current VM policy. Expected space efficiency of datastore does not match with disk groups space efficiency configuration"

Environment

VMware vSAN ESA 8.0

Cause

Deduplication is not available in the vSAN Express Storage Architecture 8.0 (ESA), only Compression.

Resolution

Deduplication is planned to be available in a later release of ESA in the future.

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