Deploying an asynchronous slave to MySQL Galera Cluster
Due to its synchronous nature, Galera performance can be limited by the slowest node in the cluster. So running heavy reporting queries or making frequent backups on one node, or putting a node across a...
Webinar Replay: How to Manage the World’s Top Open Source Databases: ClusterControl 1.2.9 Features
Thanks to everyone who attended and participated in this week’s webinar on 'New Features - ClusterControl 1.2.9 Release'. If you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the...
Monitoring Host Metrics of Your Database Instances – How to Interpret Operating System Data
Monitoring the metrics of the database hosts is critical. By keeping Swap and Physical Memory usage within allowable limits, you’ll ensure that there is enough memory for queries to be executed and connections to be...
New Severalnines Platform Manages the World’s Top Open Source Databases
New Severalnines platform manages the world’s top open source databases ClusterControl real world database management adds PostgreSQL and encryption support Stockholm, Sweden and Anywhere else in the world - 12 MARCH 2015 - Severalnines, the...
ClusterControl 1.2.9 Released
The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.2.9. This release contains key new features along with performance improvements and bug fixes. We have outlined some of the key new features below. ...
How to Migrate ClusterControl to a New Server
As your needs change, and you start managing more database instances or larger centralized backups with ClusterControl, you might find that your controller host is over-utilized. Or you might need to migrate your infrastructure to...
Chef Cookbooks for ClusterControl – Management and Monitoring for Your Database Clusters
If you are automating your infrastructure deployments with Chef, then read on. We are glad to announce the availability of a Chef cookbook for ClusterControl. This cookbook replaces previous cookbooks we released for ClusterControl and...
Simple Backup Management of Galera Cluster Using s9s_backup
Percona XtraBackup is a great backup tool with lots of nice features to make online and consistent backups, although the variety of options can be a bit overwhelming. s9s_backup tries to make it simpler for...
New ClusterControl User Guide for MySQL-Based Clusters
Following the release of ClusterControl 1.2.8 with a range of cool new features, we have now also published a new ClusterControl User Guide that provides all the steps, tips & tricks to follow in order...
Integrating ClusterControl with FreeIPA and Windows Active Directory for Authentication
Integrating ClusterControl with a corporate LDAP directory is a common task for many IT organizations. In an earlier blog, we showed you how to integrate ClusterControl with OpenLDAP. In this post, we will show...
Database Automation – Private DBaaS for MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB with ClusterControl
Installing, configuring, deploying databases and performing repetitive administrative tasks are all part of a DBA’s or sysadmin’s job. This can get pretty repetitive and overwhelming if you are part of a centralized IT team,...
PagerDuty Incident Alerting for ClusterControl
Need to add phone and SMS alerting to ClusterControl? ClusterControl 1.2.8 introduces support for PagerDuty, an alerting service for Ops teams to schedule on-calls and add phone and SMS notifications to IT tools. By integrating PagerDuty with...