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8- Appendix DRBD Installation

8- Appendix DRBD Installation

2015/04/23

How to install DRBD 8.3.13 using YUM.

Before installation DRBD, it recommends system update using YUM and node should be connect an internet to download the package.

DRBD® is Data Replication solution of LINBIT® .

 

 

  1. Update Yum repository.

    In RHEL 6.x case.

    # rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm

    In RHEL 5.x case.

    rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-5-4.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpm

  2. Modify ELRepository information

    # vi /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo

  3. Modify "enabled=1" to "enabled=0".

    [elrepo] name=ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el6 baseurl=http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/$basearch/ mirrorlist=http://elrepo.org/mirrors-elrepo.el6 enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org D protect=0

  4. Install DRBD 8.3.13 and associated modules using ELRepository.

  5. Restart DRBD service after installation.

  6. You can DRBD after restart DRBD service.

In addition, please refer to following link for more details about DRBD.

https://drbd.linbit.com/users-guide