Well, it happened again… Another lengthy EBS outage in the US-East region impacted several sites across the net. While failures like this are rare, they can be quite costly and translate into headaches for the operations team when impact production systems for any length of time. At Percona, we routinely help clients architect and deploy [...]
What attendees are saying about Percona Live NYC ?
September 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
With Percona Live NYC right around the corner I decide some of attendees what did they like on the last year event and what they are looking forward to in 2012. Here are some responses I got. If you’ve attended in 2011 or planning to join us in 2012 please feel free to comment with [...]
Comparing Percona XtraDB Cluster with Semi-Sync replication Cross-WAN
June 14, 2012 By 7 Comments
I have a customer who is considering Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in a two colo WAN environment. They wanted me to do a test comparing PXC against semi-synchronous replication to see how they stack up against each other. Test Environment The test environment included AWS EC2 nodes in US-East and US-West (Oregon). The ping RTT latency [...]
MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
August 4, 2011 By 11 Comments
A while ago I started a series of posts showing benchmark results on Amazon EC2 servers with RAID’ed EBS volumes and MySQL, versus RDS machines. For reasons that won’t add anything to this discussion, I got sidetracked, and then time passed, and I no longer think it’s a good idea to publish those blog posts [...]
Product to try: MySQL/MariaDB-Galera 0.8
June 13, 2011 By 34 Comments
I wrote about Galera about 1.5 years ago: State of the art: Galera – synchronous replication for InnoDB. It was about the 0.7 release, which was more like a proof-of-concept release (though Galera’s developers may not agree with that ) with some serious limitations (like using mysqldump for node propagation). The Galera team heard my [...]
How to replace a NDB node on EC2
June 9, 2011 By 10 Comments
NDB cluster is a very interesting solution in term of high availability since there are no single point of failure. In an environment like EC2, where a node can disappear almost without notice, one would think that it is a good fit. It is indeed a good fit but reality is a bit trickier. The [...]
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 6 – Publishing server location
February 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This post is the sixth of a series that started here. From the previous posts of this series, we now have an HA MySQL service running on EC2. We now need to find a way to point the web servers or application servers to the HA MySQL service. Normally, in an HA setup, this is [...]
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 5 – The instance monitoring script
February 15, 2011 By 3 Comments
This post is the fifth of a series that started here. From the previous posts of this series, we now have nearly everything setup, only a few pieces are missing. One of the missing pieces is the Pacemaker script that run on the MySQL instance.
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 5 – The instance monitoring script
October 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This post is the fifth of a series that started here. From the previous posts of this series, we now have an instance restart script that can restart the database node in case of failure and automatically reconfigure Pacemaker and the other servers that needs to access the MySQL server. What we will cover in [...]
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 4 – The instance restart script
August 19, 2010 By 6 Comments
This post is the fourth of a series that started here. From the previous of this series, we now have resources configured but instead of starting MySQL, Pacemaker invokes a script to start (or restart) the EC2 instance running MySQL. This blog post describes the instance restart script. Remember, I am more a DBA than [...]
