Effective free space after disabling the deduplication and compression on vSAN.

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

This article will help you to calculate the expected free space on vSAN datastore if we disable the deduplication and compression on an existing vSAN cluster.

Environment

VMware vSAN 7.x
VMware vSAN 8.x

Resolution

Verify the vSAN capacity details from vCenter by navigating to vSAN Cluster > Monitor > vSAN > Capacity tab.

What if analysis in this page shows the effective free space without Deduplication and compression based on the policy selected.