HPE SimpliVity 380 inline deduplication works globally, which means that deduplication happens across the entire data set within a federation (a single federation consists of on or multiple clusters). The data set includes primary data as well as backup copies.

HPE SimpliVity 380 inline deduplication also works across sites. This means that SimplVity OmniStack will talk to the other site and only send changed blocks.

As HPE SimpliVity 380 inline deduplication and compression that is performed by the hardware accelerator card provides essential value and does not incur any performance penalty, it cannot be turned off.