Linux repositories: Red Hat VDO

[evilaedmin]

Has anyone with a Linux repository done any work or testing with Red Hat VDO (Virtual Data Optimizer), recently supported with RHEL 7.5 and 7.6? A fully-supported deduplication solution is very intriguing, given that ZFS deduplication does not work very well and its use will never be supported by Red Hat, Inc.

[Mike Resseler]

Hey evilaedmin,

From the Veeam side, we did not do any testing (at least not that I am aware off at this moment)

We did had someone from the community test but he received issues with FLR: veeam-backup-replication-f2/feature-req ... 52841.html

Brgds,
Mike

[jmmarton]

It sounds like what was reported in the forum thread that Mike linked is specifically when using VDO within a guest and then performing FLR for that guest. That's different from using VDO on a Linux-based repo to build your own dedupe SDS appliance.

I see some references to VDO on the main Ceph website so I wonder if eventually various Ceph implementation from Red Hat, SUSE, etc may offer built-in dedupe courtesy VDO?

https://ceph.com/geen-categorie/shrinki ... -with-vdo/

Joe

[keksbert]

Hallo, is there an update on the topic here. has veem done tests of vdo in the context of linux repositories? greetings from berlin