How To Install vdo on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdo
on CentOS 7.
What is vdo
Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) is a device mapper target that delivers block-level deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning. This package provides the user-space management tools for VDO.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install vdo
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vdo.
Install vdo on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install vdo
using yum
by running the following command:
Install vdo on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install vdo
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall vdo on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the vdo
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdo
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.