How to Create a VDO Volume On a Storage Device on RHEL 8 | Linux Today

How to Create a VDO Volume On a Storage Device on RHEL 8

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Jan 28, 2020

Introduced by RedHat in RHEL 7.5 and later, VDO short for Virtual Date Optimizer is a block virtualization technology that provides inline deduplication and compression of data at a block device level.

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