Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0 Beta 1
Percona is glad to announce our first Beta release of what will become Percona XtraBackup 2.0. We’re releasing this beta to encourage testing of our upcoming 2.0 release of Percona XtraBackup.Since...
View ArticleComparing Percona XtraDB Cluster with Semi-Sync replication Cross-WAN
I have a customer who is considering Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in a two colo WAN environment. They wanted me to do a test comparing PXC against semi-synchronous replication to see how they stack up...
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Follow these basics when migrating to Percona XtraDB Cluster for MySQL
Galera/Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) for MySQL is a hot thing right now and some users jump right in without enough testing. Consequently, they’re more likely to either suffer failure or issues that...
View ArticleMulticast replication in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) and Galera
Bandwidth multiplication and synchronous clustersI’ve seen a lot of people setting up clusters with 3-6+ nodes on 1 Gbps networks. 1 Gbps seems like a lot, doesn’t it? Actually, maybe not as much as...
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Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in the real world: Share your use cases!
The aim of this post is to enumerate real-world usage of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), and also to solicit use cases from the readers. One of the prominent usages in the production environment that we...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster: Setting up a simple cluster
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...
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 ArticleNew wsrep_provider_options in Galera 3.x and Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6
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,...
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...
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Upcoming Webinar: What’s new in Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6
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...
View ArticleBefore every release: A glimpse into Percona XtraDB Cluster CI testing
I spoke last month at linux.conf.au 2014 in Perth, Australia, and one of my sessions focused on the “Continuous Integration (CI) testing of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)” at the Developer,Testing,...
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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Monitoring MySQL flow control in Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6
Monitoring flow control in a Galera cluster is very important. If you do not, you will not understand why writes may sometimes be stalled. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 provides 2 status variables for...
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 ArticleNew wsrep_provider_options in Galera 3.x and Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6
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,...
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...
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Upcoming Webinar: What’s new in Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6
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...
View ArticleBefore every release: A glimpse into Percona XtraDB Cluster CI testing
I spoke last month at linux.conf.au 2014 in Perth, Australia, and one of my sessions focused on the “Continuous Integration (CI) testing of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)” at the Developer,Testing,...
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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Monitoring MySQL flow control in Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6
Monitoring flow control in a Galera cluster is very important. If you do not, you will not understand why writes may sometimes be stalled. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 provides 2 status variables for...
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