How To Install vdo-support on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdo-support on CentOS 8.
What is vdo-support
Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) is a device mapper target that delivers block-level deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning. This package provides the user-space support tools for VDO.
We can use yum or dnf to install vdo-support on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vdo-support.
Install vdo-support on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install vdo-support using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vdo-support
Install vdo-support on CentOS 8 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install vdo-support using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vdo-support
How To Uninstall vdo-support on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the vdo-support package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vdo-support
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdo-support on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.