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We are very satisfied with the functionality and the launch. The entire Cluster is running absolutely stable. This is a significant advantage for our customers because we are able to offer our services without interruption. We will use Galera in further projects and convert our existing Master/Slave installations.

A. Rempening, Datenbank-Administrator, KiKxxl GmbH

Wir sind mit der Funktionalität und der Einführung sehr zufrieden. Das gesamte Cluster läuft absolut stabil. Dies ist ein erheblicher Vorteil für unseren Kunden denn wir können unsere Dienstleistungen unterbrechungsfrei anbieten. Wir werden Galera bei weiteren Projekten einsetzen und bestehende Master/Slave-Anwendungen umstellen.

A. Rempening, Datenbank-Administrator, KiKxxl GmbH

Am Montag, 17. und Dienstag 18. März 2014 findet im Linux-Hotel in Essen eine Galera-Cluster Schulung statt. Die Schulung wird mit Sicherheit durchgeführt werden, da die minimale Teilnehmerzahl bereits erreicht ist.

Falls Sie Interesse haben, an dieser Schulung teilzunehmen, bitten wir Sie, Sich rechtzeitig anzumelden, um Sich Ihren Platz zu sichern.

Anmelden für die Galera Cluster Schulung können Sie Sich hier.

Table of Content

• Introduction
• Prerequisites
  • System information
  • Installed packages
  • Required packages
• Upgrade the first node
  • Upgrade the installed binaries
  • Upgrade mysql schema

Was für die Oracle Datenbank der Real Application Cluster (RAC) ist, ist für MySQL der Galera Cluster.

Nachdem der Galera-Cluster Workshop an den /ch/open Workshop-Tagen 2013 ein voller Erfolg war, haben Sie jetzt noch mal die Chance, sich bis Ende September (30. September) für den vollen 2-tägigen Galera-Cluster Kurs vom 17. und 18. Oktober in Zürich anzumelden.

It took me quite a while to find out how the beast Galera Arbitrator (garbd) works. To safe your time here a short summary:

Recently we had to set-up a 3-node Galera Cluster with a Load Balancer in front of it. Because Galera Cluster nodes (mysqld) still reply to TCP requests on port 3306 when they are expelled from the Cluster it is not sufficient to just leave it to the Load Balancer to check the port if a Galera node is properly running or not.

Switching from MySQL/MyISAM to Galera Cluster requires that all tables (except those from the mysql, information_schema and performance_schema) are using the InnoDB Storage Engine.

For altering the Storage Engine of the tables we wrote a script (alter_engine.pl) long time ago already. Because we have made many of those switches recently we have extended its functionality.

A while ago it was pretty inconvenient to start a complete Galera Cluster from scratch. Rolling restart an such things are already working well but bootstrapping was a pain.

With Galera v2.2 new functionality came in. We tried it out and it did not work as documented. :-( Thanks to Teemu's help we found there was a documentation bug in the Galera documentation.

Hallo MySQL Gemeinde,

Im neuen iX (2012-10) hat es zwei nette Artikel über: MySQL HA-Lösungen (S. 116) und MySQL 5.6 (S. 66).

Viel Spass beim Lesen!

Based on customer feedback we have decided to add a plugin Galera Cluster for MySQL to our MySQL Nagios/Icinga Plugins.

The module checks, if the node is in status Primary and if the expected amount of Galera Cluster nodes is available. If not, a warning or an alarm is returned.

Aufgrund einer Kundenrückmeldung haben wir uns entschlossen unsere MySQL Nagios/Icinga Plugins um ein Plugin Galera Cluster für MySQL zu erweitern.

Das Modul prüft, ob der Knoten im Status Primary und ob die erwartete Anzahl von Galera Cluster Knoten vorhanden ist. Wenn nicht, wird eine Warnung oder ein Alarm zurückgemeldet.

During and after Henriks great talk about Galera Cluster at the FrOSCon 2012 in St. Augustin we found 2 important things related to Galera Cluster for MySQL:

On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 the next DOAG SIG MySQL meeting will take place in Hamburg (Germany) with the topic Replication.

Possible presentations are: MySQL Replication, Galera Cluster, Replication with Oracle GoldenGate, Replication with Zimory Scale and Tungsten Replicator.

The event will presumably be located at the Hotel Böttcherhof at Wöhlerstrasse 2.

Table of Contents

• Building the Galera Load Balancer
• Starting the Galera Load Balancer
• Querying the Galera Load Balancer
• Draining nodes with Galera Load Balancer
• Removing nodes from and adding nodes to Galera Load Balancer

On April 2^nd 2012 FromDual released the new version v0.9 of its Performance Monitor for MySQL (mpm). The new version can be downloaded from here.

The Performance Monitor for MySQL (mpm) is an agent which is hooked into Zabbix. Zabbix is an integrated Enterprise Monitoring solution which can produce performance graphs and alerting.

The changes in the new release are:

Helsinki, Finland, Uster, Switzerland – February 18, 2012 – Codership, the provider of Galera Cluster for MySQL, and FromDual, a MySQL consulting company, today announced collaboration to offer Galera Cluster technology and related support and consulting services for Galera users all over the world, especially in German speaking countries Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). Galera Cluster is a synchronous, true multi-master replication cluster for MySQL using the well known InnoDB storage engine.