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DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) is a virtual block device that is distributed across two or more machines. Combined with [Heartbeat], it '''should''' be usable in a high availability (HA) system.
DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) is a virtual block device that is distributed across two or more machines.


== Installation ==
== Installation ==
On a clean installation of RHEL 7 or equivalent, run updates, and ensure that you have [[NTP]] and [[Mainline Kernel on CentOS 7|a recent kernel installed]].


Links to some guides that should help you get started:
Get the DRBD packages from ELRepo:
* http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Ha-Drbd
rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-2.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm
yum install drbd84-utils kmod-drbd84
 
 
== See Also ==
* http://unix-linux-server.blogspot.ca/2014/10/drbd-on-centos-70-oracle-linux-70-and.html
* http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Ha-Drbd (CentOS 5)
* http://wiki.openvz.org/HA_cluster_with_DRBD_and_Heartbeat
* http://wiki.openvz.org/HA_cluster_with_DRBD_and_Heartbeat


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Revision as of 18:46, 30 March 2015

DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) is a virtual block device that is distributed across two or more machines.

Installation

On a clean installation of RHEL 7 or equivalent, run updates, and ensure that you have NTP and a recent kernel installed.

Get the DRBD packages from ELRepo:

rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-2.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm
yum install drbd84-utils kmod-drbd84


See Also