Percona XtraDB Cluster in practice

This tutorial will utilize laptop-based VMs to guide attendees through the basics of setup and administration of XtraDB cluster. Covered topics will be:

• Migration from standard mysql to xtradb cluster
• Configuration differences between standard mysql and xtradb cluster
• Monitoring cluster node states
• Adding nodes to the cluster and various SST methods
• Setting up load balancing for Xtradb cluster
• Cluster maintenance
• Examples of the types of locking different clients can expect to see in Xtradb cluster if writing to multiple nodes.

This talk will require attendees have a reasonably powerful laptop and Virtualbox installed. Setup instructions can be found here.