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Working with Essential Red Hat Linux System Administration Tools - Storage (VDO)

This lab will present us with a scenario that will make sure we have the minimum knowledge required for successfully passing the RHCE on RHEL8. In this particular lab, we'll be looking at Red Hat storage methods, and making sure we've got skills at the level expected of someone taking this exam. *This course is not approved or sponsored by Red Hat.*

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Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 15m
Last updated
Clock icon Aug 26, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create the Underlying Device

    To set up VDO we first need to install the software.

    yum install /home/cloud_user/kmod-kvdo-6.1.3.23-5.el7.x86_64.rpm -y

    Once that's done, we need to create a Logical Volume containing the two physical disks, since vdo can't span disks.

    pvcreate /dev/nvme1n1 /dev/nvme2n1

    vgcreate vdoDev /dev/nvme1n1 /dev/nvme2n1

    lvcreate -n vdoLV -l 100%FREE vdoDev

    Now that's done we have a 40G device we can work with.

    vdo create --name=RHCE --device=/dev/vdoDev/vdoLV --vdoLogicalSize=150G --sparseIndex=enabled

    to create the VDO device.

  2. Challenge

    Create a File System on the Device

    Super Simple:

    mkfs.xfs /dev/mapper/RHCE

  3. Challenge

    Mount the Device

    First we make sure the mount point exists:

    mkdir /mnt/video

    Then we can run

    mount /dev/mapper/RHCE /mnt/video

    And we're done!

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