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8- Appendix DRBD Installation

8- Appendix DRBD Installation

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2017/11/08

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 software of LINBIT® . MCCS for linux manages this as mirror disk.

 

 

  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.

    # yum --enablerepo=elrepo install drbd83-utils-8.3.13 kmod-drbd83-8.3.13

  5. Restart DRBD service after installation.

    # service drbd restart

  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