Your colleague has advised a customer with a small VMware environment to purchase the SmartDedupe/SmartCompression license with their new StorageSystem to reduce the amount of diskspace required.

Your colleague has advised a customer with a small VMware environment to purchase the SmartDedupe/SmartCompression license with their new StorageSystem to reduce the amount of diskspace required.

This is:
A . A good advice, there is a lot of duplicate data in the Operating System.
B . An advice driven by marketing, the reduced amount of diskspace required is minimal.
C . Not a good advice, deduplication will not reduce the required diskspace because every VM is unique,
D . Not a good advice. Although the customer will require less diskspace, the performance of the system will decrease significantly.

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Answer: A