I am very pleased to announce a new event in conjunction with the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo this year: Open Source Appreciation Day on Monday, March 31st in the Santa Clara Convention Center! We are pleased to announce two separate groups holding events this year under this new umbrella. We are hosting an event called “OpenStack Today” for those interested in learning more about developments in the OpenStack world. CentOS is holding the “CentOS Dojo Santa Clara” …

I spoke last month at linux.conf.au 2014 in Perth, Australia, and one of my sessions focused on the “Continuous Integration (CI) testing of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)” at the Developer,Testing, Release and CI miniconf.

Here is the video of the presentation:

Here is the presentation itself:

Percona XtraDB Cluster before every release: Glimpse into CI testing from Raghavendra PrabhuBelow is a rough transcript of the talk:

This talk covered the continuous integration testing of the Galera cluster; specifically, Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), based on Galera, is taken into …

Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on February 20th 2014. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories.

Based on Percona Server 5.6.15-63.0 including all the bug fixes in it, Galera Replicator 3.3 and on Codership …

We recently announced Percona ClusterControl supplied in partnership with Severalnines. This enterprise-grade cluster management and monitoring software is available with a Percona Support contract covering Percona XtraDB Cluster, MySQL Cluster, or MySQL Galera. In this blog post I am going to show you how to use Percona ClusterControl to to create a new 3-node cluster with Percona XtraDB Cluster.

Percona ClusterControl architecture

The software has three main parts:

• Percona ClusterControl UI: This is the web interface from where we can create new clusters and monitor and manage …

Next Wednesday, Severalnines CTO Johan Andersson and I will co-present a webinar about ClusterControl, a cluster management tool created by Severalnines that can monitor Percona XtraDB Cluster. It provides DBAs with the right metrics to manage and optimize applications during development and production.

In the webinar, titled “Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Percona XtraDB Cluster,” we will discuss ClusterControl in general, and then we will explain how to install ClusterControl 1.2.5 in agentless mode. This is a particularly interesting use-case for me because in this …

Before Percona XtraBackup 2.1.7 and Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.15-25.3, rsync was the only SST method supporting GTID in the way that it was possible to move an asynchronous slave from one Galera node to another one (related bug).

Indeed, previous versions of Percona XtraBackup didn’t copy any binary log and due to that, moving the async slave to another master, just broke replication (when writes still happened).

Now with the latest version of Percona XtraBackup and Percona XtraDB Cluster, wsrep_sst_xtrabackup-v2 handles the last binlog sent from Percona XtraBackup and allows the move to another …

Thanks to all who attended my webinar yesterday.  The slides and recording are available on the webinar’s page.  I was a bit overwhelmed with the amount of questions that came in and I’ll try to answer them the best I can here.

Q: Does Percona XtraDB Cluster support writing to multiple master?

Yes, it does.  However, locks are not held on all nodes while a transaction is in progress, so there is a possibility for conflicts between simultaneous writes on different nodes.  Certification is the process that Galera uses to protect your data integrity, and the problem is pushed back to the application to handle in the form of deadlock errors.   As long as you understand this and the conditions where you may see more deadlocks (and your application can properly handle them), multi-node …

ClusterControl for Percona XtraDB Cluster is now available in three different versions thanks to our partnership with Severalnines. ClusterControl will make it simpler to manage and monitor Percona XtraDB Cluster, MySQL Cluster, MySQL Replication, or MySQL Galera.

I am very excited about our GA release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 last week. As Vadim described in his blog post announcing the release, we have brought together the benefits of Percona Server 5.6, Percona XtraBackup and Galera 3 to create a drop-in compatible, open source, state-of-the-art high availability MySQL clustering solution. We could not have done it without the close cooperation and help of our partners at Codership. To learn more, join us on February …

Percona is pleased to announce the first General Availability release of the leading open source High Availability solution for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on January 30, 2014. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 is an active/active cluster solution for High Availability (HA) MySQL that delivers performance and MySQL-based cluster management features available nowhere else. This free, open source solution combines …

This is a followup to Jay Janssen’s October post, “Using keepalived for HA on top of Percona XtraDB Cluster.” We got a request recently where the customer has 2 VIPs (Virtual IP addresses), one for reader and one for a writer for a cluster of 3 nodes. They wanted to keep it simple, with low latency and does not require an external node resource like HaProxy would.

keepalived is a simple load balancer with HA capabilities, which means it can proxy TCP services behind it and at the same time, keep itself highly available using VRRP as failover mechanism. This post is about taking advantage of the …