How To Install drbd-utils on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install drbd-utils on CentOS 7. drbd-utils is Management utilities for DRBD

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install drbd-utils on CentOS 7.

What is drbd-utils

DRBD mirrors a block device over the network to another machine. Think of it as networked raid 1. It is a building block for setting up high availability (HA) clusters. This packages includes the DRBD administration tools.

We can use yum or dnf to install drbd-utils on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install drbd-utils.

Install drbd-utils on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install drbd-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install drbd-utils

Install drbd-utils 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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install drbd-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install drbd-utils

How To Uninstall drbd-utils on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the drbd-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove drbd-utils

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install drbd-utils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.