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Changing an async slave of a PXC cluster to a new Master
Async and PXCA 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...
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2 new features added to Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) since 5.5.31
With the last Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) release, two major features were added:* a new command to bootstrap the cluster was added to the init script * SST via Xtrabackup now supports Xtrabackup 2.1...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster/ Galera with Percona Monitoring Plugins
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...
View ArticleUseful MySQL 5.6 features you get for free in PXC 5.6
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...
View ArticleThe use of Iptables ClusterIP target as a load balancer for PXC, PRM, MHA and...
Most technologies achieving high-availability for MySQL need a load-balancer to spread the client connections to a valid database host, even the Tungsten special connector can be seen as a...
View ArticleClusterControl for Percona XtraDB Cluster Improves Management and Monitoring
ClusterControl for Percona XtraDB Cluster is now available in three different versions thanks to our partnership with Severalnines. ClusterControl will make it simpler to manage and monitor Percona...
View ArticleDoing a rolling upgrade of Percona XtraDB Cluster from 5.5 to 5.6
OverviewPercona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 has been GA for several months now and people are thinking more and more about moving from 5.5 to 5.6. Most people don’t want to upgrade all at once, but would prefer...
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MySQL High Availability With Percona XtraDB Cluster (Percona MySQL Training)
I’ve had the opportunity to train lots of people on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) over the last few years the product has existed. This has taken the form of phone calls, emails, blog posts, webinars,...
View ArticleSemi-Sync replication performance in MySQL 5.7.4 DMR
I was interested to hear about semi-sync replication improvements in MySQL’s 5.7.4 DMR release and decided to check it out. I previously blogged about poor semi-sync performance and was pretty...
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Changing an async slave of a PXC cluster to a new Master
Async and PXCA 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...
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2 new features added to Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) since 5.5.31
With the last Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) release, two major features were added:* a new command to bootstrap the cluster was added to the init script * SST via Xtrabackup now supports Xtrabackup 2.1...
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Percona XtraDB Cluster/ Galera with Percona Monitoring Plugins
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...
View ArticleUseful MySQL 5.6 features you get for free in PXC 5.6
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...
View ArticleThe use of Iptables ClusterIP target as a load balancer for PXC, PRM, MHA and...
Most technologies achieving high-availability for MySQL need a load-balancer to spread the client connections to a valid database host, even the Tungsten special connector can be seen as a...
View ArticleClusterControl for Percona XtraDB Cluster Improves Management and Monitoring
ClusterControl for Percona XtraDB Cluster is now available in three different versions thanks to our partnership with Severalnines. ClusterControl will make it simpler to manage and monitor Percona...
View ArticleDoing a rolling upgrade of Percona XtraDB Cluster from 5.5 to 5.6
OverviewPercona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 has been GA for several months now and people are thinking more and more about moving from 5.5 to 5.6. Most people don’t want to upgrade all at once, but would prefer...
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MySQL High Availability With Percona XtraDB Cluster (Percona MySQL Training)
I’ve had the opportunity to train lots of people on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) over the last few years the product has existed. This has taken the form of phone calls, emails, blog posts, webinars,...
View ArticleSemi-Sync replication performance in MySQL 5.7.4 DMR
I was interested to hear about semi-sync replication improvements in MySQL’s 5.7.4 DMR release and decided to check it out. I previously blogged about poor semi-sync performance and was pretty...
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Galera data on Percona Cloud Tools (and other MySQL monitoring tools)
I was talking with a Percona Support customer earlier this week who was looking for Galera data on Percona Cloud Tools. (Percona Cloud Tools, now in free beta, is a hosted service providing access to...
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Q&A: Percona XtraDB Cluster as a MySQL HA solution for OpenStack
Thanks to all who attended my Nov. 12 webinar titled, “Percona XtraDB Cluster as a MySQL HA Solution for OpenStack.” I had several questions which I covered at the end and a few that I didn’t. You can...
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