Hello,  No.  HIT/ME, and VSM  allow for the creation of much more consistent snapshots and replicas.  Since the in memory cache will be flushed to the storage before the creation process.  HIT/ME and VSM do it very differentlly under the covers, but the end result is the same. HIT/ME has the futher advantage of working directly with SQL, Exchange and SharePoint.  The HIT/ME docs have more info on the benefits of using HIT/ME.  Neither will effect the size of replication. The EQL array is a block storage device. The blocks are organized into larger pages.  When you modify a page, that entire page is allocated.
Hi, I'm new to Dell EQL. Got a server running VMware ESXi 5.1 U1 running a single VM with Windows 2008 R2 and MS SQL 2008 R2. Tried replicating between EQLs the replica size reached 500MB to 1 GB despite the database growth per day is around 50 MB only. I read on a white paper suggesting to use storage direct. In short I will be presenting a volume to the VM directly via Windows iSCSI initiator. Actually I did this already saw minimal improvement.   Will installing HIT/ME solve my replication problem? What does HIT/ME do in order to protect the MS SQL? Is this capable of saving only the modification to the SQL database and not those useless bits that make my replication a problem..   Thanks, Paul
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