Windows 2012 R2 Deduplication Problems, 0 B SavedSpace and 0 OptimizedFiles

Objective:
On a Windows 2012 R2 server, enable Deduplication on a new 20 TB D: physical volume. This volume will become a target for Veeam Backup and Replication backups.
Problem:
Deduplication fails to dedupliate anything. Get-DedupStatus always reports 0 B SavedSpace and 0 OptimizedFiles.
PS D:\> Get-DedupStatus
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
2 TB 0 B 0 0 D:
Troubleshooting Steps:
Uninstalled Role/Feature > Deduplication (using GUI)
Rebooted Server
Deleted the D: Volume (using GUI)
Rebooted Server
Created a new 2 TB D: Volume (using GUI)
Copied 500 MB of random data from a networked file server to D: (using GUI)
Made four local copies of that same folder on D: for a total of about 2 GB of data
Installed Role/Feature > Deduplication (using GUI)
Did not enable or apply Deduplication to the D: drive just yet
Ran DDPEVAL.exe D: (the Data Deduplication Savings Evaluation Tool) and received these results
PS D:\> ddpeval.exe D:
Data Deduplication Savings Evaluation Tool
Copyright (c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Evaluated folder: D:
Evaluated folder size: 2.02 GB
Files in evaluated folder: 451
Processed files: 285
Processed files size: 2.02 GB
Optimized files size: 171.26 MB
Space savings: 1.85 GB
Space savings percent: 91
Optimized files size (no compression): 328.66 MB
Space savings (no compression): 1.69 GB
Space savings percent (no compression): 84
Files excluded by policy: 166
Small files (<32KB): 166
Files excluded by error: 0
Status 1 of Troubleshooting:
I uninstalled the Deduplication role, rebooted, and reinstalled the Deduplication role. Before applying Deduplication to a newly created volume, I populated that volume with about 2 GB of data. I then used the ddpeval.exe tool to determine the results that
I should achieve if Deduplication was enabled on this volume.
Continue Troubleshooting Steps:
Server Manager > File and Storage Services > Volumes > D: > Configured Data Deduplication > enabled "General purpose file server > Apply
Used PowerShell > Get-DedupStatus to confirm D: was enabled
Used PowerShell > Start-DedupJob D: -Type Optimization -Full to manually run Deduplication on volume D:
Used PowerShell > Get-DedupJob every 2 seconds to monitor the Progress and State of the deduplication job
The Start-DedupJob always runs less than 1 minute, has a Progress of either 0% or 100%, and has a State of Queued, Running, or Completed.
Then ran PowerShell > Get-DedupStatus again to check my results
Results remain 0 B SavedSpace, 0 OptimizedFiles
PowerShell Results
PS D:\> Get-DedupStatus
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
2 TB 0 B 0 0 D:
PS D:\> Start-DedupJob D: -Type Optimization -Full
Type ScheduleType StartTime Progress State Volume
Optimization Manual 0 % Queued D:
PS D:\> Get-DedupJob
Type ScheduleType StartTime Progress State Volume
Optimization Manual 1:22 PM 0 % Running D:
PS D:\> Get-DedupJob
Type ScheduleType StartTime Progress State Volume
Optimization Manual 1:22 PM 100 % Completed D:
PS D:\> Get-DedupStatus
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
2 TB 0 B 0 0 D:
Closing:
I don't have any problems or errors installing or running Deduplication. I simply have no results. More importantly, my Deduplication results do not match the Data Deduplication Savings Evaluation Tool's predictions. How should I further troubleshoot?
Thank you for your time.

Thanks for responding and introducing me to Update-DedupStatus. Sadly, no change in results. Note that I again deleted my volumes and reinstalled the deduplication role. This time I'm working on a newly created E: volume.
Update-DedupStatus result:
PS E:\> Get-DedupStatus
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
2 TB 0 B 0 0 E:
PS E:\> Start-DedupJob E: -Type Optimization -Full
Type ScheduleType StartTime Progress State Volume
Optimization Manual 0 % Queued E:
PS E:\> Get-DedupStatus
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
2 TB 0 B 0 0 E:
PS E:\> Update-DedupStatus E:
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
2 TB 0 B 0 0 E:
PS E:\> Start-DedupJob E: -Type Optimization -Full
Type ScheduleType StartTime Progress State Volume
Optimization Manual 0 % Queued E:
PS E:\> Get-DedupStatus
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
2 TB 0 B 0 0 E:
PS E:\> Update-DedupStatus E:
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
2 TB 0 B 0 0 E:
PS E:\> Get-DedupJob
PS E:\> Get-DedupStatus
FreeSpace SavedSpace OptimizedFiles InPolicyFiles Volume
2 TB 0 B 0 0 E:
PS E:\>
Connection/Drive/RAID Type:
The 20 TB physical disk is behind an IBM ServeRAID M5110 SCSI Disk Device controller. It consists of 12 4 TB SATA drives configured as a RAID 10. All drives and controller are direct attached (local) on an IBM x3630 M4 server.

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    network.
    For more details about virtual network switch, please refer to the link below,
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd581798(v=WS.10).aspx
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    Tina

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