LINBIT, the DRBD project's sponsor company, provides DRBD binary packages to its commercial support customers. These packages are available at http://www.linbit.com/support/ and are considered "official" DRBD builds.

These builds are available for the following distributions:

LINBIT releases binary builds in parallel with any new DRBD source release.

Package installation on RPM-based systems (SLES, RHEL) is done by simply invoking rpm -i (for new installations) or rpm -U (for upgrades), along with the corresponding drbd and drbd-km package names.

For Debian-based systems (Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu) systems, drbd8-utils and drbd8-module packages are installed with dpkg -i, or gdebi if available.