Deduplicating and compressing logical volumes on RHEL

Use the Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) feature in Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to manage deduplicated and compressed logical volumes. You can manage VDO as a type of LVM's Logical Volume (LV), similar to LVM thin-provisioned volumes.

You can deploy VDO on LVM (LVM-VDO) to provide deduplicated storage for block access, file access, local storage, and remote storage. You can also configure a thin-provisioned VDO volume to avoid the physical space of the VDO volume being 100% used.

You can manage the VDO volume by using the LVM tools after importing the VDO volume into LVM.