Re: Looking for consultant

2012-07-18 Thread Howard Hart
You could write to an InnoDB frontend with master/master replication at each site, and slave off the local InnoDB server to your local cluster at each site. Would make your writes limited by your InnoDB server performance and remote replication speed, but reads would run at cluster speeds and

RE: Looking for consultant

2012-07-18 Thread Rick James
Keep in mind that all "cluster" solutions are vulnerable to a single power failure, earthquake, flood, tornado, etc. To "protect" from such, you need a hot backup located remotely from the "live" setup. This introduces latency that will kill performance -- all cluster solutions depend on synci

Re: Looking for consultant

2012-07-18 Thread Antonis Kopsaftis
Hello, As far i can understand by your post, you need a high availability mysql cluster with large capacity. For having high availability you need something that can give you multi-master replication between two or more mysql servers. In my knowledge there are three solutions that can give yo

Re: Looking for consultant

2012-07-18 Thread Shawn Green
Hello Carl, On 7/18/2012 11:11 AM, Carl Kabbe wrote: We are actually facing both capacity and availability issues at the same time. ... It sounds to me like you need a combination of sharding (one master per client or set of clients) combined with multiple slaves (one for backups only). If y

Re: Looking for consultant

2012-07-18 Thread Adrian Fita
On 18/07/12 18:11, Carl Kabbe wrote: > We are actually facing both capacity and availability issues at the > same time. > > Our current primary server is a Dell T410 (single processor, 32 GB > memory) with a Dell T310 (single processor, 16GB memory) as backup. > Normally, the backup server is runn

Re: Looking for consultant

2012-07-18 Thread Carl Kabbe
We are actually facing both capacity and availability issues at the same time. Our current primary server is a Dell T410 (single processor, 32 GB memory) with a Dell T310 (single processor, 16GB memory) as backup. Normally, the backup server is running as a slave to the primary server and we ma

Re: Off-topic: Linux Bier Wanderung

2012-07-18 Thread mos
At 06:34 AM 7/18/2012, Johan De Meersman wrote: Hey all, Apologies for this mostly-off-topic mail, but I would like to draw interested parties' attention to the yearly Linux Bier Wanderung - the Linux Beer Hike - that I'm helping organise this year in Diksmuide, Belgium :-) In brief, it's m

Re: Looking for consultant

2012-07-18 Thread Shawn Green
On 7/17/2012 8:22 PM, Carl Kabbe wrote: On Monday, I asked if there were consultants out there who could help set up an NDB high availability system. As I compared our needs to NDB, it became obvious that NDB was not the answer and more obvious that simply adding high availability processes t

Off-topic: Linux Bier Wanderung

2012-07-18 Thread Johan De Meersman
Hey all, Apologies for this mostly-off-topic mail, but I would like to draw interested parties' attention to the yearly Linux Bier Wanderung - the Linux Beer Hike - that I'm helping organise this year in Diksmuide, Belgium :-) In brief, it's more of a holiday than it is a convention, with fri

Re: Looking for consultant

2012-07-18 Thread Johnny Withers
Would you consider a service like www.xeround.com? Sent from my iPad On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Carl Kabbe wrote: > On Monday, I asked if there were consultants out there who could help set up > an NDB high availability system. As I compared our needs to NDB, it became > obvious that NDB w