We recently released XtraDB-9, and while we did not highlight it in announcement, the release-making feature is ability to save and restore InnoDB buffer pool. The idea is not new and was originally developed by Jeremy Cole (sorry, I do not have the link on hands) some time ago, and now we implemented it in [...]
Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – Replication
November 13, 2009 By 6 Comments
In the last 2 blog posts about High Availability for MySQL we have introduced definitions and provided a list of ( questions that you need to ask yourself before choosing a HA solution. In this new post, we will cover what is the most popular HA solution for MySQL, replication.
Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The questions
October 16, 2009 By 36 Comments
After having reviewed the definition my the previous post (The definitions), the next step is to respond to some questions. Do you need MySQL High-Availability? That question is quite obvious but some times, it is skipped. It can also be formulated “What is the downtime cost of the service?”. In the cost, you need to [...]
Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The definitions
October 9, 2009 By 10 Comments
As my first contribution to the MySQL Performance Blog, I joined Percona at the beginning September, I chose to cover the various high-availability (HA) options available for MySQL. I have done dozen of MySQL HA related engagements while working for Sun/MySQL over the last couple of years using Heartbeat, DRBD and NDB cluster and I’ll [...]
Percona welcomes Yves Trudeau and Fernando Ipar
October 8, 2009 By 6 Comments
I’m happy to extend a warm welcome to two new members of the Percona team.
First is Yves Trudeau, about whom I can say many things:
One of the top MySQL Cluster (NDB Cluster) experts in the world.
An expert on all things High Availability, including DRBD and Heartbeat.
Many years of experience with Huge Data.
Half of the Waffle Grid team.
A really nice person!
Yves joins us after a tenure of several years as a senior consultant at Sun/MySQL. Together with Matt Yonkovit, he plans to work on WaffleGrid (…
Percona Welcomes Morgan Tocker and Matt Yonkovit
July 13, 2009 By 1 Comment
The Percona team has kept on expanding. We are very pleased to announce the addition of Morgan Tocker and Matt Yonkovit!
Morgan has been with us for a while. Before joining Percona, Morgan worked as a Technical Instructor for MySQL (and then Sun Microsystems) in…1990′s as a DBA, System Administrator, and all around techie. Before joining Percona, Matt worked at MySQL and Sun Microsystems as a Solution Architect helping to…. He will be a valuable member of both our consulting and development teams.
Morgan and Matt, a big welcome — we are fortunate indeed that you’re…
Three key things to know about moving MySQL into the cloud.
July 13, 2009 By 11 Comments
The question “what problems will I have when migrating to the cloud” gets asked often enough. If by cloud you mean Amazon EC2, then from a technical perspective there isn’t much that changes. The biggest thing that changes is just how you pay your bill. Having said that, there’s still a few potential gotchas: There [...]
Is DRBD the right choice for me?
July 7, 2009 By 18 Comments
It seems pretty common to find customers install DRBD for the wrong reasons. There are many pros/cons to compare DRBD to replication, but I’ve managed to cut down my spiel I give to customers to these two points: DRBD’s aim (assuming replication mode C) is to provide 100% consistency, and then as much uptime as [...]
Onsite and Remote – getting best of both worlds
July 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
At Percona we provide services both Onsite – visiting the customers and Remote – logging in to their systems or communicating via email,phone,instant messaging. We believe both approaches have their benefits and drawbacks and mixing them right way allows you to get your problems solved most efficient way.
When would you use SAN with MySQL ?
March 9, 2009 By 18 Comments
One question which comes up very often is when one should use SAN with MySQL, which is especially popular among people got used to Oracle or other Enterprise database systems which are quite commonly deployed on SAN. My question in such case is always what exactly are you trying to get by using SAN ?
