Re: Advise on High Availability configuration

2004-02-03 Thread Dr. Frank Ullrich
Message- From: Russell Horn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday 02 February 2004 16:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Advise on High Availability configuration Andrew Braithwaite wrote: Each slave keeps a heartbeat to the master and in the event of a failure, changes it's master

Re: Advise on High Availability configuration

2004-02-02 Thread A.J.Millan
No, when we implemented high-availability MySQL servers we used MySQL's inbuilt replication - this has been running here for years now and we have had constant DB availability during that time, even though individual machines have failed now and again. We're using 2 masters 4 slaves with

Re: Advise on High Availability configuration

2004-02-02 Thread Jim Richardson
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:17:08AM +0100, A.J.Millan wrote: No, when we implemented high-availability MySQL servers we used MySQL's inbuilt replication - this has been running here for years now and we have had constant DB availability during that time, even though individual machines have failed

RE: Advise on High Availability configuration

2004-02-02 Thread Andrew Braithwaite
. Hope this helps with your study. Cheers, Andrew -Original Message- From: A.J.Millan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday 02 February 2004 08:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Advise on High Availability configuration No, when we implemented high-availability MySQL servers we

RE: Advise on High Availability configuration

2004-02-02 Thread Russell Horn
Andrew Braithwaite wrote: Each slave keeps a heartbeat to the master and in the event of a failure, changes it's master to master2. So how does this bit work? If one master falls over and slaves move to master two, how do you rebuild master one without downtime? Don't the slaves try and use

RE: Advise on High Availability configuration

2004-02-02 Thread Gowtham Jayaram
Hello All: Thank you for all the advise provided on this issue. Much appreciate Andrew's detailed answers and alternate solution. I will investigate the Replication method and try to devise some strategy to make sure that the Slave mirrors the Master as closely as possible. Also taking

RE: Advise on High Availability configuration

2004-02-02 Thread Andrew Braithwaite
need dscussion, nicely explained by Jeremy here: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000805.html Cheers, Andrew -Original Message- From: Russell Horn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday 02 February 2004 16:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Advise on High Availability

Re: Advise on High Availability configuration

2004-02-01 Thread Fred van Engen
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:36:34AM -0800, Gowtham Jayaram wrote: CONFIGURATION: [...] - Additionally, I will setup a SCSII controller in the Primary and Secondary Application machines so that the actual data store (disk drive) runs on another physical machine in a disk-array (RAID). So

RE: Advise on High Availability configuration

2004-02-01 Thread Andrew Braithwaite
the same table simultaneously? InnoDB has row level locking but MyISAM doesn't Hope this helps, Andrew -Original Message- From: Gowtham Jayaram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday 30 January 2004 18:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Advise on High Availability configuration Hello

Advise on High Availability configuration

2004-01-30 Thread Gowtham Jayaram
Hello All; I am in the process of examining a High Availability (HA) configuration. The motivation is to not use database replication (at least at this stage) because of the need to work on the complete data set at any given point in time. Here is the configuration choice being considered

RE: Advise on High Availability configuration

2004-01-30 Thread Steven Roussey
I am wary of something so 'do it yourself'. Have you looked at ReHat's clustering solution? http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/cluster/ http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/cluster/manager/ I don't think it has any issue with InnoDB, key buffers, etc. I believe this solution works best for