8- Appendix DRBD Installation
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.
Update Yum repository.
In RHEL 6.x case.
# rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpmIn RHEL 5.x case.
rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-5-4.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpmModify ELRepository information
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repoModify "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=0Install DRBD 8.3.13 and associated modules using ELRepository.
# yum --enablerepo=elrepo install drbd83-utils-8.3.13 kmod-drbd83-8.3.13
Restart DRBD service after installation.
# service drbd restart
You can DRBD after restart DRBD service.
In addition, please refer to following link for more details about DRBD.