February 13, 2014 By Severalnines

Galera is slowly but surely establishing itself as a credible replacement for traditional MySQL master-slave architectures. 

The benefits are clear - a true multi-master InnoDB setup with built-in fail-over, potentially across data centers. 

But how do you migrate? Does the schema or application change? What are the limitations? Can migration be done online, without service interruption? What are the potential risks, and how to address those?

Webinar: Migrating to MySQL, MariaDB Galera and/or Percona XtraDB Cluster

Tuesday, March 11th 2014

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After my presentation at FOSDEM I got a few questions regarding our Galera implementation and why we did things the way we want. First of all, the slides: Spil Games @ FOSDEM: Galera Replicator IRL from spil-engineering Second of all, the questions I got: Q: Why first copy all the data to a new MySQL […]

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February 4, 2014 By Severalnines

Great news for Percona customers! We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Percona. Effective immediately, Percona customers will be able to enjoy the advanced automation, monitoring and cluster management capabilities of ClusterControl. Percona will be bundling, with its Cluster support contracts, Percona ClusterControl - a privately branded version of ClusterControl Community. Together we're providing support for the full stack, from Percona XtraDB Cluster to management tools, giving customers one number to call. 

For anyone who has deployed, managed or monitored a mission-critical database cluster, you will know that having the right tools can really make a difference. This is exactly our goal with ClusterControl, with a focus on operational management from day one. In only a few clicks, ClusterControl provides customers the ability to deploy Galera-based MySQL Clusters in private …

February 3, 2014 By Severalnines

Liferay is an open-source content management system written in Java. It is used by a number of high traffic sites, as this survey suggests. 

Clustering Liferay and other components such as the database and the file system is a good way to handle the performance requirements of a high traffic site. The latest Liferay version has introduced features that simplify clustering, such as built-in support for Ehcache clustering, Lucene replication, read/write splitting capabilities for database (in case if you run on master-slave architecture) and support for various file systems for the portal repository. 

In this post, we are going to show you how to cluster Liferay in a multi-node load-balanced setup. The database backend will be based on Galera Cluster for MySQL, and the file …

MaxScale for the rest of us - Part 1 SkySQL released MaxScale as Open Source on github a few weeks ago. For some instructions on how to install and configure it, Ivan Zoratti has written a blog about that, and Mark Riddoch has written about why we need MaxScale here, but what I will try in a series of blogs is to describe what MaxScale is, in terms of what you can do with it, and to put it into context, so that you have an idea why you would want to install it in the first place. I will also show how to configure and manage MaxScale. This first post is a quick introduction to MaxScale.

So what is MaxScale then? Mark, and many others, call it a Proxy, and that is partly true, if …

What is it about?

I used to do some benchmarkstuff and blogged about it on my blog written in German. Im going to do testings and benchmarkings again:)

We are going to have a look into ‘benchmarking’ a 3-node Galera Cluster. The application (sysbench) is on a separate node accessing one node of the cluster. This would be the case in a i.e. VIP setup.

Setup

3 Galera Nodes

• Virtual machines (OpenStack) provided by teuto.net
• VCPU: 4
• RAM: 4GB
• OS: Centos 6.4-x86_64
• MySQL-server-5.6.14wsrep25.1-1.rhel6.x86_64
• galera-25.3.2-1.rhel6.x86_64

Separate sysbench node

• Same specs as the Galera nodes
• sysbench 0.5
• oltp test on 5 tables 1000000 rows each (ca. 1.2GB)
• A run took 60 seconds

I know it was officially announced Monday, but I just wanted to take a moment and let everyone know MariaDB Enterprise 1.0 is now available, in case you missed the previous article.

What does MariaDB Enterprise consist of?

“MariaDB Enterprise is composed of several components including MariaDB Manager, which is a set of management tools and an API with which you can easily provision, monitor, and manage a highly available MariaDB Galera Cluster for multi-master, synchronous replication. Galera is a powerful technology that can eliminate single points of failure for your database infrastructure, but it is relatively new and can be a challenge to configure for administrators who aren’t familiar with it.”

https://mariadb.com/..MariaDB Enterprise – Getting Started …

January 23, 2014 By Severalnines

Thanks to everyone who attended this week’s webinar; if you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again and browse through the slides, they are now available online.

Special thanks to Seppo Jaakola from Codership, the creators of Galera Cluster, for walking us through the various scenarios of Galera recovery. 

Webinar topics discussed: 

• Redundancy models for Galera, NDB and MongoDB / TokuMX
• Failover & Recovery (Automatic vs Manual)
• Zooming into Galera recovery procedures
• Split brains in multi-datacenter setups

Watch the replay:

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I confess I am a Galera fanboy. This post is going to present two slogans about Galera reminding you about Galera “limitations”. This is for the sake of user experience:)

Galera Phrases:

• One Cluster
• Replication

One Cluster

Think about Galera as One Cluster. As every transaction is committed virtually synchronously, the slowest node determines the (DML) speed of the cluster. This is true regarding the network too.

Replication

• Galera is still some kind of replication. So keep in mind to provide PK as for (ROW based) Replication. There is a Featurerequest of mine to have a PK option to enforce creating of Tables with a PK. Please vote for it:)

• With traditional MySQL Replication the slave might lag. This is …

January 20, 2014 By Severalnines

Alfresco is a popular collaboration tool available on the open-source market. It is Java based, and has a content repository, web application framework and web content management system. For critical large-scale implementations that require 24*7 uptime, a multi-node cluster would be appropriate. Since Alfresco depends on external components such as the database and the filesystem, clustering the Alfresco instances only would not be enough.

In this post, we are going to show you how to deploy an active-active Alfresco cluster with MySQL Galera Cluster (database), GlusterFS (filesystem) and HAproxy with Keepalived (load balancer) to achieve redundancy of all the required system components.

Please note that clustering of Alfresco instances is only available in the Alfresco Enterprise. Hazelcast is used …