Required due to a Devmapper issue if I recall correctly, from a 5+ yr old kernel.
$ rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
$ rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-6.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
$ yum --enablerepo=elrepo-kernel install kernel-lt -y
$ sudo sed -i 's/^default=1/default=0/' /etc/grub.conf
$ reboot