Scaling MySQL Deployments With Percona Server and Virident tachIOn Drives

Until recently, MySQL and InnoDB were unable to take advantage of
high-performance hardware, particularly storage systems. Large-scale
deployments made heavy use of so-called horizontal scaling
with a technique called sharding — partitioning data
across many small-to-midsize servers. Today, MySQL — especially
Percona's enhanced version of MySQL, Percona Server with
XtraDB — is capable of exercising much more powerful servers and
storage systems. As a result, server consolidation and vertical scaling
is a viable, and often much more economical, path to high performance
with MySQL. This white paper explains how to configure servers for high
performance with MySQL and the Virident tachIOn PCIe solid-state
storage device.