Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-04-04 Thread Wes Modes
Thanks, Ian. W. On 4/4/2012 4:02 AM, Ian wrote: On 04/04/2012 01:11, Wes Modes wrote: On 4/3/2012 3:04 AM, Ian wrote: On 03/04/2012 00:47, Wes Modes wrote: Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. I do believe the answers I've receiving, but since I have requirements that I cannot easily

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-04-03 Thread Ian
On 03/04/2012 00:47, Wes Modes wrote: Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. I do believe the answers I've receiving, but since I have requirements that I cannot easily alter, I'm also gently pushing my expert advisers here to look beyond their own preferences and direct experience. RE:

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-04-03 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - From: Ian mys...@fishnet.co.uk with each master having any number of slaves. Set MySQL Proxy to send writes to the masters and reads to the slaves. Yes, except when you have replication delays (asynchronous, remember?) like someone else recently posted, your

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-04-03 Thread Wes Modes
Am I right in seeing that if you can split reads and writes without the application having to be replication-aware, one does not need multiple masters? One can simply have standard MySQL replication, yes? For us, we only were interested in multiple masters so that we could read or write from any

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-04-03 Thread Wes Modes
On 4/3/2012 3:04 AM, Ian wrote: On 03/04/2012 00:47, Wes Modes wrote: Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. I do believe the answers I've receiving, but since I have requirements that I cannot easily alter, I'm also gently pushing my expert advisers here to look beyond their own

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-04-02 Thread Wes Modes
Thanks Shawn and Karen, for the suggestions, even given my vague requirements. To clarify some of my requirements. *Application: *We are using an open-source application called Omeka, which is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum,

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-04-02 Thread Rick James
DRBD, SAN, etc. Sure, they are highly redundant. Sure they are reliable. But they do not handle the building being in a flood/earthquake/tornado/etc. If you want HA, you have to start with having two (or more) copies of all the data sitting in geographically distinct flood plains, etc. If

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-04-02 Thread shawn green
Hello Wes, On 4/2/2012 4:05 PM, Wes Modes wrote: Thanks Shawn and Karen, for the suggestions, even given my vague requirements. To clarify some of my requirements. *Application: *We are using an open-source application called Omeka, which is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-04-02 Thread Wes Modes
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. I do believe the answers I've receiving, but since I have requirements that I cannot easily alter, I'm also gently pushing my expert advisers here to look beyond their own preferences and direct experience. RE: Shared storage. I can easily let go of the

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-04-02 Thread Tim Dunphy
- From: Wes Modes wmo...@ucsc.edu To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Monday, April 2, 2012 7:47:18 PM Subject: Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. I do believe the answers I've receiving, but since I have requirements

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-03-30 Thread Rick James
Caution: You are not going to like my answers. and VMWare shared storage Why? Seems like scalability should plan on having dedicated hardware. replication The best choice multi-mastering Dual-Master gives good HA DRBD Partially solves one subset of HA; don't bother with it; set your

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-03-30 Thread Karen Abgarian
Hi, First, it is kind of funny to advise on something that is unknown. The devil of such systems is in details. A small detail might cancel the whole big idea of using, say, sharing, clustering, etc.So any discussion on this will be quite general and can only be applied to your

Re: HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-03-30 Thread shawn green
Hello Wes, On 3/29/2012 9:23 PM, Wes Modes wrote: First, thank you in advance for good solid suggestions you can offer. I suppose someone has already asked this, but perhaps you will view it as a fun challenge to meet my many criteria with your suggested MySQL architecture. I am working at a

HA Scalability w MySQL + SAN + VMWare: Architecture Suggestion Wanted

2012-03-29 Thread Wes Modes
First, thank you in advance for good solid suggestions you can offer. I suppose someone has already asked this, but perhaps you will view it as a fun challenge to meet my many criteria with your suggested MySQL architecture. I am working at a University on a high-profile database driven project