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Jay JanssenWhither your rollback plan? MySQL 5.6 upgrades are in full swing these days and knowing how to safely upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to 5.6 is important. When upgrading a replication environment, it’s important that you can build a migration plan that safely allows for your upgrade with minimal risk — rollback is often a very […]
Thanks to all who attended my webinar yesterday. The slides and recording are available on the webinar’s page. I was a bit overwhelmed with the amount of questions that came in and I’ll try to answer them the best I can here. Q: Does Percona XtraDB Cluster support writing to multiple master? Yes, it does. However, […]
I’ve been blogging a lot about some of the new things you can expect with Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 and Galera 3.x – and GA is coming soon. To get prepared, I’ll be giving a webinar on February 5th at 1PM EST/10AM PST to talk about some of the big new features, upgrading strategies, as well as […]
Gcache and IST The Gcache is a memory-based cache of recent Galera transactions that is local to each node in a cluster. If a node leaves and rejoins the cluster, it can use the gcache from another node that stayed in the cluster (i.e., its donor node) to fetch the transactions it missed (IST) as […]
A decade ago MySQL folks were in love with the concept of a relay slave for MySQL high availability across data centers. A relay is a single slave in a remote data center that receives replication from the global master and, in turn, replicates to all the other local slaves in that data center. This saved […]
I get a lot of questions about Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 (PXC 5.6), specifically about whether such and such MySQL 5.6 Community Edition feature is in PXC 5.6. The short answer is: yes, all features in community MySQL 5.6 are in Percona Server 5.6 and, in turn, are in PXC 5.6. Whether or not the new […]
Now that Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 is out in beta, I wanted to start a series talking about new features in Galera 3 and PXC 5.6. On the surface, Galera 3 doesn’t reveal a lot of new features yet, but there has been a lot of refactoring of the system in preparation for great new […]
The Percona Monitoring Plugins (PMP) provide some free tools to make it easier to monitor PXC/Galera nodes. Monitoring broadly falls into two categories: alerting and historical graphing, and the plugins support Nagios and Cacti, respectively, for those purposes. Graphing An update to the PMP this summer (thanks to our Remote DBA team for supporting this!) added a Galera-specific host template that […]
Checking throughput with async MySQL replication Replication throughput is the measure of just how fast the slaves can apply replication (at least by my definition). In MySQL async replication this is important to know because the single-threaded apply nature of async replication can be a write performance bottleneck. In a production system, we can tell […]
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) itself manages quorum and node failure. Minorities of nodes in a network partition situation will move themselves into a Non-primary state and not allow any DB activity. Nodes in such a state will be easily detectable via SHOW GLOBAL STATUS variables. It’s common to use HAproxy with PXC for load balancing purposes, but […]
I occasionally see customers who are taking backups from their PXC clusters that complain that the cluster “stalls” during the backup. As I wrote about in a previous blog post, often these stalls are really just Flow Control. But why would a backup cause Flow control? Most backups I know of (even Percona XtraBackup) take […]
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is different enough from async replication that it can be a bit of a puzzle how to do things the Galera way. This post will attempt to illustrate the basics of setting up 2 node PXC cluster from scratch. Requirements Two servers (could be VMs) that can talk to each other. […]
My colleague and teammate Ernie Souhrada will be presenting a webinar on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 10 a.m. PDT titled “MySQL Security: Armoring Your Dolphin.” This is a popular topic with news breaking routinely that yet another Internet company has leaked private data of one form or another. Ernie’s webinar will be a great […]
Thanks to all who attended my PXC Operations webinar last week. If you missed it you can watch the video here. I wanted to take some time to answer the questions I didn’t get to during the broadcast. Is there an easy way to leverage the xtrabackup SST and IST in an xtradb cluster to […]
Async and PXC A common question I get about Percona XtraDB Cluster is if you can mix it with asynchronous replication, and the answer is yes! You can pick any node in your cluster and it can either be either a slave or a master just like any other regular MySQL standalone server (Just be […]
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) was released over a year ago and since then there has been tremendous interest and adoption. There’s plenty of talks that explain the fundamentals of PXC, but we’re starting to reach a threshold where it’s easier to find folks with PXC in production and such the need for more advanced talks […]
I talk with lot of people who are really interested in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) and mostly they are interested in PXC as a high-availability solution. But, what they tend not to think too much about is if moving from async to synchronous replication is right for their application or not. Facts about Galera replication […]
Few people realize that Galera/Percona XtraDB (PXC) replication can be encrypted via SSL for secure transfer of your replicated data. Setting this up is actually quite easy to do and probably will look familiar to a lot of people. Setting up SSL and Galera Create and propagate a single key/cert pair First, we create a […]
Last week at Percona Live, I delivered a six-hour tutorial about Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) for MySQL. I actually had more material than I covered (by design), but one thing I regret we didn’t cover was Flow control. So, I thought I’d write a post covering flow control because it is important to understand. What […]
As is typical at the beginning of every April, many of us who submitted talks to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo are wondering why we submitted so many. I had 3 official talks selected, including one that is a 6-hour tutorial, as well as a BoF. Here’s the highlights: Percona XtraDB Cluster / […]