Hello all!
I have question for you, that is bothering me and my colleague.
Tbh, I didn't read the documentation for Deduplication feature in 2012 R2 version of the Server OS, but my colleague did, and came up with a hypothetical quetion.
1) We have our virtual file server with Server 2012 R2 OS installed. We have switched on the Deduplication feature on the main file share disk and we are quite happy with the space savings! But what will happen, if the server crashes, and we will be forced to shut it down, detach the main file share disk and connect it to another virtual file server with2012 R2 OS on it?
2) Based on the previous scenario, is it possible to connect the drive that has the deduplication feature swtiched on, from Server 2012 R2 to Server 2008 R2? I mean, the scenarion will be that I have no other choice, than to connect the drive from 2012 R2 to 2008 R2.
Thank you for your time in advance!
The IT guys from LukOIL