There are number of people recently blogging about MySQL automated failover, based on production incident which GitHub disclosed. Here is my take on it. When we look at systems providing high availability we can identify 2 cases of system breaking down. First is when the system itself has a bug or limitations which does not [...]
Great Talks on Percona Live,NY!, Free Pass opportunity inside
September 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
You surely have heard about Percona Live,NY taking place October 1-2 in New York, you however might have been wondering what kind of talks you would see on this event and why would should you attend. The day one of this event is Tutorial day, which is long (half to a full day) presentations which [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release
April 3, 2012 By 11 Comments
I am excited to announce the availability of the GA release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server 5.5.20. With this release we make clustering very easy and affordable for everyone. You can convert your existing [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster Events
February 24, 2012 By 6 Comments
We are on our way to delivery a production ready release of Percona XtraDB Cluster by the end March-2012. We will do couple events to cover features and architecture of XtraDB Cluster.
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 – Beta release
February 23, 2012 By 10 Comments
I am happy to announce the availability of beta release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and the beta release is based on Percona Server 5.5.20 and the recently released Galera 2.0 GA The main focus in this release: Incremental State Transfer, [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 2: Multi-Master replication
January 19, 2012 By 22 Comments
This is about the second great feature – Multi-Master replication, what you get with Percona XtraDB Cluster. It is recommended you get familiar with general architecture of the cluster, described on the previous post. By Multi-Master I mean the ability to write to any node in your cluster and do not worry that eventually you [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 1: High Availability
January 17, 2012 By 20 Comments
There and in coming posts I am going to cover main features of Percona XtraDB Cluster. The first feature is High Availability. But before jumping to HA, let’s review general architecture of the Percona XtraDB Cluster.
Learn about Percona XtraDB Cluster at Percona Live DC
January 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
You probably saw that Vadim blogged about the first alpha release of Percona XtraDB Cluster. Just in time: now I can talk about it at my High Availability talk in Percona Live DC! If you’re coming, be sure to catch us in the hallway and ask those specific questions that won’t be addressed in a [...]
