Data Deduplication on VMWare workstation

Question

i am using VMWare workstation pro 12.5.0 on windows machine(Host). I am running 2 VMs(ubuntu 14.04) on VMWare. I want to use data deduplication on these VMs. VMWare support TPS which is disabled by default due to which inter-VM dedpulication is disabled but intra-VM deduplication is enable. Can anyone help me in fixing this problem ?

Answer 1

TPS, or transparent page sharing, is a feature that's only available for RAM and is generally only used during periods of contention.

Workstation doesn't have the ability to do disk based deduplication, if that's the question. And intra-VM dedup wouldn't have the ability to perform any deduplication between the two separate VMs. That's a guest-OS level action.