HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
I'm planning to set up an HA mysql cluster. The database serves as a backend to a set of webservers (HW loadbalanced). The DB has light load, but when it breaks the site breaks, so I can't really get away with it as a single point of failure. So here were my options:

Re: HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 10:43, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: I think I've settled on the DRBD method. Using a network block device and failing back and forth using heartbeat and a floating ip, though log shipping seems pretty straightforward. Does anyone have any positive or negative feedback

Re: HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 10/09/2007 10:43 AM, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: I'm planning to set up an HA mysql cluster. The database serves as a backend to a set of webservers (HW loadbalanced). The DB has light load, but when it breaks the site breaks, so I can't really get away with it as a single point of failure.

Re: HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/9/07, Flaherty, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm planning to set up an HA mysql cluster. The database serves as a backend to a set of webservers (HW loadbalanced). The DB has light load, but when it breaks the site breaks, so I can't really get away with it as a single point of

RE: HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
What about multimaster replication? Multi Master made me feel a bit icky. Auto-increment offsets the same logshipping stuff others have had problems with. There are also other implementations of mmr, but they are just sets of scripts that mimic heartbeat. In the end, it's the same as normal

Re: HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:43 -0400, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: Replication - One master server accepts writes, on write ships it's logs to the slave server(s). Async may not be a problem, but seems silly there's no flag to wait for the slaves to report a write was successful. Replication is

RE: HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:12 -0400, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: What about multimaster replication? Multi Master made me feel a bit icky. Auto-increment offsets the same logshipping stuff others have had problems with. A MySQL slave has a single master. A master can have multiple slaves.

Re: HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:43 -0400, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: I'm planning to set up an HA mysql cluster. Oddly enough, I just got an email from mysql.com advertising high availability training in Burlington, MA later this month. Let me know if you want a copy of the email. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix

Re: HA MySQL Setups

2007-10-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 10/9/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:12 -0400, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: What about multimaster replication? Multi Master made me feel a bit icky. Auto-increment offsets the same logshipping stuff others have had problems with. A MySQL slave has a