Some people want to use a backup to prepare a new Percona XtraDB Cluster node. They want this to avoid State Snapshot Transfer that could slow down the donor (depending of the SST method you are using, the donor can be blocked. I will cover this in a future blog post). As backup are generally [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster: Failure Scenarios with only 2 nodes
July 25, 2012 By 6 Comments
During the design period of a new cluster, it is always advised to have at least 3 nodes (this is the case with PXC but it’s also the same with PRM). But why and what are the risks ? The goal of having more than 2 nodes, in fact an odd number is recommended in [...]
Testing Percona Replication Manager (prm) with Vagrant
April 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
If you have recently attended some Percona Live events or if you have checked some slides from Yves Trudeau, you may have heard about Percona Replication Manager (PRM), a new high availability tool for MySQL. Percona Live DC 2012 Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2012 PRM is an OCF Resource Agent for Corosync [...]
Testing Percona XtraDB Cluster with Vagrant
April 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
For those wanting to become more familiar with Percona XtraDB Cluster or if you just one to test its capabilities, I have prepared an easy Vagrant setup ready to deploy. It contains the puppet recipes to install and configure a cluster of 3 nodes and a load balancer (glb) running on the first node. To [...]
FOSDEM 2012 – MySQL and Friends devroom
December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
2012 is near… and so is the next FOSDEM edition ! This year again, MySQL will be represented by its Community. If you want to discuss with friend’s of MySQL it’s the place to be in February ! Like every year, FOSDEM takes place the first week-end of February in Brussels. The MySQL and Friends [...]
Infinite Replication Loop
October 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
Last week I helped 2 different customers with infinite replication loops. I decided to write a blog post about these infinite loop of binary log statements in MySQL Replication. To explain what they are, how to identify them… and how to fix them.
