How To Install drbd on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install drbd on AlmaLinux 8.
What is drbd
DRBD refers to block devices designed as a building block to form high availability (HA) clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via an assigned network. DRBD can be understood as network based raid-1. This is a virtual package, installing the full user-land suite.
We can use yum or dnf to install drbd on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install drbd.
Install drbd on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install drbd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install drbd
Install drbd on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install drbd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install drbd
How To Uninstall drbd on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the drbd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove drbd
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install drbd on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
