Quick post to announce QDDA version 2.2 has been published on Github and in the Outrun-Extras YUM repository. Reminder: The Quick and Dirty Dedupe Analyzer is an Open Source Linux tool that scans disks or files block by block to find…
Announcing qdda 2.0
It’s almost a year since I blogged about qdda (the Quick & Dirty Dedupe Analyzer). qdda is a tool that lets you scan any Linux disk or file (or multiple disks) and predicts potential thin, dedupe and compression savings if…
The Quick and Dirty Dedupe Analyzer – Part 1 – Hands on
As announced in my last blogpost, qdda is a tool that analyzes potential storage savings by scanning data and giving a deduplication, compression and thin provisioning estimate. The results are an indication whether a modern All-Flash Array (AFA) like Dell…
The Quick and Dirty Deduplication Analyzer
The best thing about being me… There are so many “me”s. — Agent Smith, The Matrix Reloaded One of our customers reported less than optimal space savings on XtremIO running Oracle. In order to test various scenarios with Oracle I…