How to install and setup DRBD on CentOS

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shahril bin kamaruzzaman
Aug 23, 2016

This tutorial explains how to install and setup DRBD for your server. Before I start, let me explain what actually DRBD represents and what it is used for. DRBD stands for Distributed Replicated Block Device, a software-based, shared-nothing, replicated storage solution for mirroring the content of block devices such as hard disks, partitions, logical volumes etc.

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shahril bin kamaruzzaman

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