[CentOS] Clustering MySQL

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Wed Dec 12 13:17:56 UTC 2007


Luke Dudney wrote:
> After all the discussions regarding MySQL-style clustering (multi-master 
> etc), what about a "classic" HA cluster for MySQL? Since the OP 
> mentioned high availability, wouldn't the simplest solution be failover 
> clustering (ie. single master with failover, shared storage, fenced 
> nodes etc) via Centos CS?

You could achieve something like this just using shared storage, a 
clustered filesystem, and mysql-proxy balancing a bunch of mysql instances.

> As I haven't done this myself I can't really comment further, but does 
> anyone else on the list have experience engineering a Centos Cluster 
> Suit failover cluster for MySQL?

not me no :D not the whole boatload anyway.

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