community.windows.win_data_deduplication – Module to enable Data Deduplication on a volume.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.windows collection (version 1.3.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_data_deduplication.

Synopsis

• This module can be used to enable Data Deduplication on a Windows volume.

• The module will install the FS-Data-Deduplication feature (a reboot will be necessary).

Parameters

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
drive_letter string / required			Windows drive letter on which to enable data deduplication.
settings dictionary			Dictionary of settings to pass to the Set-DedupVolume powershell command.
	minimum_file_age_days integer	Default: 2	Minimum file age you want to target for deduplication.
	minimum_file_size integer	Default: 32768	Minimum file size you want to target for deduplication. It will default to 32768 if not defined or if the value is less than 32768.
	no_compress boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Wether you want to enabled filesystem compression or not.
	optimize_in_use_files boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Indicates that the server attempts to optimize currently open files.
	verify boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Indicates whether the deduplication engine performs a byte-for-byte verification for each duplicate chunk that optimization creates, rather than relying on a cryptographically strong hash. This option is not recommend. Setting this parameter to True can degrade optimization performance.
state string		Choices: present ← absent	Wether to enable or disable data deduplication on the selected volume.

Examples

- name: Enable Data Deduplication on D
  community.windows.win_data_deduplication:
    drive_letter: 'D'
    state: present

- name: Enable Data Deduplication on D
  community.windows.win_data_deduplication:
    drive_letter: 'D'
    state: present
    settings:
      no_compress: true
      minimum_file_age_days: 1
      minimum_file_size: 0

Authors

• rnsc (@rnsc)