MySQL Fabric is a new product and some folks are running into issues when trying to deploy test instances that grow beyond a single server.

The Fabric documentation has an example GRANT statement illustrating the simple localhost use case:

CREATE USER 'fabric'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secret';
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'fabric'@'localhost';

The example shown above belies the more complex way that Fabric uses the fabric login.

The Fabric config file has 3 sections that deal with user and password values, I will only focus on the [servers] section of the configuration file.  The user and password defined in this section is used by the mysqlfabric utility to connect to managed servers …

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 Tuning of …

September 3, 2014 By Severalnines

Running your database cluster on AWS is a great way to adapt to changing workloads by adding/removing instances, or by scaling up/down each instance. At Severalnines, we talk much more about scale-out than scale up, but there are cases where you might want to scale up an instance instead of scaling out. 

In this post, we’ll show you how to change instance sizes with respect to RAM, CPU and IOPS, and how to tune your Galera nodes accordingly. Moreover, this post assumes that instances are launched using Amazon VPC.

When do we need to upgrade an instance?

You typically need to upgrade an instance when you run out of server resources. This includes CPU, RAM, storage capacity, disk throughput and bandwidth. You must allow enough headroom for …

August 28, 2014 By Severalnines Check Out Our Latest Resources for MySQL, MariaDB & MongoDB Clusters

Here is a summary of resources & tools that we’ve made available to you in the past weeks. If you have any questions on these, feel free to contact us!

New Technical Webinars

Performance Tuning of HAProxy for Database Load Balancing

09 September 2014 - with Baptiste Assmann of HAProxy Technologies

Do you know what HAProxy can tell you about your application and database instances? Do you know the difference between …

The other day, I was discussing high availability (HA) with other people.  The discussion was going in the direction of, as the application was only using INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE (ODKU) and traffic could be replayed, promoting a slave in case of the failure of the master was easy: replaying traffic would make all the slaves converge back to a common state.  It looks as this could work but it might not be as simple.  Before going into the details, let's take a step back and look into HA in general.

tl;dr: be careful when using row-based replication when replicating ODKU as slaves will stop replicating if a row is present on the master and missing on slave (or vice-versa).

High Availability by Promoting a Slave as the new Master
Let's suppose we are working …

August 13, 2014 By Severalnines

New Webinar: Performance Tuning of HAProxy for Database Load Balancing

Date, Time & Registration: 

Tuesday, September 9th @10am CEST (Europe & MEA / Asia Pacific)

Register here

Tuesday, September 9th …

As businesses head into the cloud, it is tempting to reach for the first product that offers to make database operation as simple as punching a few buttons on a menu.  However, there’s a big difference between firing up cloud database services such as Amazon RDS for testing or development and finding a solution that can handle hundreds of millions of transactions daily. This webinar-on-demand

August 6, 2014 By Severalnines

Well over a thousand sessions have been submitted for the OpenStack Summit and two of them includes our good selves! We’ve submitted two talks with partners of ours: 

• ClusterControl: Efficient and reliable MySQL Management, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting for OpenStack HA)
• Deploying Databases for OpenStack

… and would love it if the talks were included in the final agenda. For that to happen, we need a few more of your votes today!

The OpenStack Summit is a five-day conference for developers, users, and …

We are pleased to inform you that the new Continuent Tungsten 2.0.3 is now available. This is a recommended release for all Continuent Tungsten clustering customers as it contains important updates and improvements to the stability of the manager component, specifically with respect to possible stalls and memory usage that would cause manager failures:

A number of fixes to the Manager

Martin Arrieta and I gave an online presentation last week on “Putting MySQL Fabric To Use.” If you missed it, you can find a recording and the slides here, and the vagrant environment we used plus a transcript of the commands we ran here (be sure to check out the ‘sharding’ branch, as that’s what we used during the webinar).

Thank you all for attending and asking interesting questions. We were unable to answer all of them in the scheduled time, so here are our replies to all the questions.

What is GTID? And how does it relate to MySQL Fabric?
GTID stands for Global …