'DRDB' Category

• The State of High Availability

  January 25, 2012

  Searching for the Holly GrailFor months I have been writing and rewriting an blog post called “The Full Monty”. It’s a kind of how to build complete production system from scratch. I’m still not done. Maybe I’m fullish thinking I can build a one type fits all database server. But that’s not the problem. I’ve [...]

  posted in Commentary, DRDB, HA by mark

• The Full Monty – Scientfic Linux 6.1, drbd, PaceMaker, MySQL, Tunsten Replication and more

  August 1, 2011

  PART 1 – This will be a multi part post. THIS DOCUMENT IS BEING UPDATED – PLEASE WATCH FOR CHANGES! After years of supporting MySQL, for many different companies, I’ve seen this story played out again and again. The company: chooses a Database Management System (MySQL) installs the DBMS on a computer with other processes [...]

  posted in CentOS, DRDB, HA, Heartbeat, HOW TO, Tips & Tricks by mark

• MySQL HA with DRDB and Heartbeat on CentOS 5.5

  July 20, 2010

  This is one of a few MySQL High Availability strategies.  I have used this for years and found it work great.  If you don’t know about DRBD and MySQL you should read Peter’s comments. These are step by step instructions for Redhat 5 or CentOS. If you need more details please refer to: http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/ Configuring [...]

  posted in CentOS, DRDB, HA, Heartbeat, Redhat by mark