… will be giving a talk “Percona XtraDB Cluster” on coming San Francisco MySQL Meetup, next Wednesday, March-21, 2012. Along with…
Post: Free ticket to MySQL User Conference on SF Meetup with talk "Percona XtraDB Cluster"
Post: When would you use SAN with MySQL ?
… have advantages compared to directly attached storage but also downsides – SAN typically has better throughput (because of larger amount of drives… choice. High Availability Some people are got used to using SAN based active-passive clusters for availability purposes and they look… and best solution for all problems at once. When evaluating SAN you should also evaluate external directly attached storage, SSDs, Increasing…
Post: Sphinx at MySQL Meetup at San Francisco
I will be presenting at upcoming MySQL Meetup at San Francisco this Thursday, August 13. I will talk about Sphinx … Single Day Intense Training Workshop for either Santa Clara or San Francisco locations.
Post: Percona Training: Dublin, San Diego, NYC, and WDC
… in the following cities: Dublin, Ireland – December 5 – 8, 2011 San Diego, CA – December 12 – 15, 2011 New York, NY – January…
Post: Announcing Ignite Percona - San Francisco, Feb 16th.
… the key details: Same Location as Percona Live (Bently Reserve, San Francisco). A ticket to Percona Live also gets you into…
Post: Announcing Percona Live: San Francisco February 16th
… be held at the Bently Reserve on February 16th in San Francisco. Live is our way of showcasing some of…
Post: Shard-Query adds parallelism to queries
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Post: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The questions
… replication no Master-Master with MMM manager no Heartbeat/SAN (depends on SAN) yes Heartbeat/DRBD yes NDB Cluster yes 3. Does… replication Fair Master-Master with MMM manager Fair Heartbeat/SAN (depends on SAN) Excellent Heartbeat/DRBD Good NDB Cluster Excellent 5. For… manager Good, average MySQL DBA + good Sysadmin skills Heartbeat/SAN (depends on SAN) High, Good MySQL DBA + strong Sysadmin skills Heartbeat/DRBD…
Post: Why you can't rely on a replica for disaster recovery
… people make unsafe assumptions without knowing it. This one involved SAN snapshotting that was unsafe. In a nutshell, the client used… data file, which we determined had been restored from a SAN snapshot. Accessing this file caused a number of errors, including… obviously from other files, such as Python exception logs. The SAN snapshot was useless for practical purposes. (The client decided not…
Comment: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The questions
… a single database you can achieve higher writes with a SAN but if your already logically separating your customers over hundreds of servers then putting them all on a single SAN with not improve performance in my opinion especially if you… something like ZFS to prevent if from ever happening. With SAN based solutions you are putting all reliance on the…

