As data are growing rapidly in data centers,inline cluster deduplication technique has been widely used to improve storage efficiency and data reliability.However,there are some challenges faced by the cluster deduplication system:the decreasing data deduplication rate with the increasing deduplication server nodes,high communication overhead for data routing,and load balance to improve the throughput of the system.In this paper,we propose a well-performed cluster deduplication system called AR-Dedupe.The experimental results of two real datasets demonstrate that AR-Dedupe can achieve a high data deduplication rate with a low communication overhead and keep the system load balancing well at the same time through a new data routing algorithm.In addition,we utilize application-aware mechanism to speed up the index of handprints in the routing server which has a 30%performance improvement.
