DRBD and MySQL – Virtualbox Setup

“Introduction

“DRBD is a Linux project to provide a real time distributed
filesystem. Part two of this series will dig deep into a real-world
installation example. We’ll use Sun’s virtualbox software to create
a couple of VMs, then configure those VMs with DRBD, and finally
install and test MySQL running on volumes sitting on DRBD.

“Virtualbox – An Easy and Powerful VM Solution

“Sun has a great free virtual machine solution called
Virtualbox. There are many such options, but I chose theirs because
it runs on Linux, Windows and Mac, so it should work for
everyone.

“The download can be found here:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

“It of course comes with a simple GUI installer, so I won’t go
through that in too much detail. That is pretty straightforward.
Once you have that installed, fire it up and we’ll run through the
steps to create a vm. Since we will also be installing CentOS on
our virtual machines, I recommend you go find that here:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/isos/”

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