How To Install drbd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install drbd
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install drbd.
Install drbd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install drbd
using yum
by running the following command:
Install drbd on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install drbd
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall drbd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the drbd
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install drbd
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.