I have used many tools starting with MMM to be able to manage MySQL replication clusters. Some of the tools need more tools and complex HA solutions such as Pacemaker and Corosync, or Zookeeper. While other tools do not do the failover well which leaves the slaves in an inconsistent state, MMM would be an example. And I must say that of all the tools I love MySQL Master HA (MHA) the most. MHA is a great tool to manage MySQL replication clusters for the purpose of HA. The most important thing about MHA is that it tries to take all the necessary steps to do a MySQL master failover in a way that provides as much data consistency as possible. The slave promotion also tends to be very quick, on average I have seen it take 10 to 15 seconds. It is also very easy to deploy unlike some of the other complex HA solutions. I would highly recommend reading about the architecture of MHA on its wiki: https://code.google.com/p/mysql-master-ha/wiki/Architecture Why …
[Read more]January 30, 2015 By Severalnines
| In this joint webinar series with our friends from the HAProxy team, we covered the concepts around the popular open-source HAProxy load balancer, and demonstrated how to use it with SQL-based database clusters. We also discussed HA strategies for HAProxy with Keepalived and Virtual IP. |
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Thanks to everyone who participated in these two sessions this week! Please see below for details on next week’s follow up session 'Performance Tuning for HAProxy & MySQL'.
The topics covered this week included:
- What is HAProxy?
- SQL Load balancing for MySQL
- Failure detection using MySQL health checks
- High Availability with Keepalived and Virtual IP
- Use cases: MySQL/MariaDB Galera Cluster, MySQL NDB …
September 11, 2014 By Severalnines
Thanks to everyone who attended and participated in this week’s webinar on ‘Performance Tuning of HAProxy for Database Load Balancing’. And special thanks to our guest speaker, Baptiste Assmann of HAProxy Technologies.
If you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the slides, they are now available online.
Watch the replay of this webinar to learn about what HAProxy can tell you about your application and database instances. And understand the difference between short-lived connections and persistent connections, and how they affect the performance and availability of your applications.
Watch the replay Performance …
[Read more]June 17, 2014 By Severalnines
We continuously see great interest in MySQL load balancing and HAProxy, so we thought it was about time we organised a live webinar on the topic!
As most of your will know, database clusters and load balancing go hand in hand.
Once your data is distributed and replicated across multiple database nodes, a load balancing mechanism helps distribute database requests, and gives applications a single database endpoint to connect to.
Instance failures or maintenance operations like node additions/removals, reconfigurations or version upgrades can be masked behind a load balancer. This provides an efficient way of isolating changes in the database layer from the rest of the …
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