A number of distributions include DRBD, including pre-built binary packages. Support for these builds, if any, is being provided by the associated distribution vendor. Their release cycle may lag behind DRBD source releases.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), includes DRBD 0.7 in versions 9 and 10. DRBD 8.3 is included in SLES 11 High Availability Extension (HAE) SP1.
On SLES, DRBD is normally installed via the software installation component of YaST2. It comes bundled with the High Availability package selection.
Users who prefer a command line install may simply issue:
yast -i drbd
or
zypper install drbd
Debian GNU/Linux includes DRBD 8 from the 5.0 release (lenny
)
onwards. In 6.0 (squeeze
), which is based on a 2.6.32 Linux kernel,
Debian ships a backported version of DRBD.
On squeeze
, since DRBD is already included with the stock kernel,
all that is needed to install is the drbd8-utils
package:
apt-get install drbd8-utils
On lenny
(obsolete), you install DRBD by issuing:
apt-get install drbd8-utils drbd8-module
CentOS has had DRBD 8 since release 5.
DRBD can be installed using yum
(note that you will need the
extras
repository enabled for this to work):
yum install drbd kmod-drbd