What is the reason for this behavior?

Refer to Exhibit:

An administrator needs to enable inline deduplication for a pre-existing storage container.

When trying to enable deduplication on the storage container. this feature is grayed-out.

What is the reason for this behavior?
A . Replication Factor 1 is configured on the storage container.
B. The cluster has less than 5 nodes which is the minimum node-count to enable deduplication.
C. Capacity reservation is not enabled on the storage container.
D. The cluster has hybrid storage and deduplication is supported only on all-flash clusters.

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Answer: D

Explanation:

Nutanix supports two types of deduplication: post-process and inline. Post-process deduplication runs periodically on a schedule and can be enabled on any cluster. Inline deduplication runs in real time before data is written to disk and can be enabled only on all-flash clusters.

Therefore, by checking the type of storage and the type of deduplication, you can determine if you can enable inline deduplication on a storage container or not.

Nutanix inline deduplication is a feature that reduces the stored size and avoids duplicate data on a storage container1. It is recommended only on some specific scenarios, such as when using Nutanix Files or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) workloads12.