Leveraging AWS Tools to Speed up the Management of Galera Cluster on Amazon Cloud
We previously covered basic tuning and configuration best practices for MyQL Galera Cluster on AWS. In this blog post, we’ll go over some AWS features/tools that you may find useful when managing Galera on Amazon...
5 Performance Tips for Running Galera Cluster on AWS Cloud
Amazon Web Services is one of the most popular cloud environments. Galera Cluster is one of the most popular MySQL clustering solutions. This is exactly why you’ll see many Galera clusters running on EC2 instances....
Monitoring Galera Cluster – Understanding and Optimizing IO-Related InnoDB Metrics
This blog post is a follow up to our previous post on monitoring CPU-related InnoDB metrics in Galera Cluster. One of the main issues in terms of scalability of MySQL (and thereby also Galera) is...
Webinar Replay: How to Monitor MySQL Galera Cluster, MariaDB Cluster & Percona XtraDB Cluster
Thanks to everyone who attended and participated in this week’s webinar on 'How to Monitor Galera Cluster'. If you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the slides,...
Database Security – How to Fully SSL-Encrypt Your MySQL Galera Cluster
Data security is a hot topic for many companies these days. But for those who need to adhere to security standards like PCI DSS or HIPAA, security is not an option. We showed you sometime...
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...
How to Cluster Atlassian Server Apps in Your Data Center – JIRA, Confluence, Stash with MySQL Galera Cluster
Atlassian apps are widely used by development teams to facilitate software development and collaboration. For larger teams who require enterprise-grade tools, you might want to host the applications in your own data center and cluster...
Monitoring Galera Cluster – Understanding and Optimizing CPU-Related InnoDB Metrics
The performance of a Galera cluster is strongly connected to the performance of MySQL. Galera only supports the InnoDB storage engine, it is therefore important to have an insight into how InnoDB operates – what metrics...
How to Deploy High Availability CloudStack/CloudPlatform with MariaDB Galera Cluster
Apache CloudStack is a turnkey orchestration platform to deliver IaaS clouds. As a cloud infrastructure scales to hundreds or thousands of servers, with production environments supporting multiple applications and services, high availability becomes a key...
HowTo: Offline Upgrade of Galera Cluster to MySQL 5.6 or MariaDB 10
MySQL 5.6 has an extensive list of new features and changes, so upgrading from a previous version can be risky if not tested extensively. For this reason, we recommend our users to read and understand...
High Availability File Sync and Share – Deploying ownCloud with Galera Cluster for MySQL and GlusterFS
Cloud storage is hot. Dropbox, Apple iCloud, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive and Amazon Cloud Drive all offer cloud sharing platforms where you can store documents in the cloud and access them from all your devices....
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...