Drbd on FromDual GmbH

The DRBD Module for FromDual Performance Monitor for MySQL is now available

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:59:40 +0000

FromDual has released today the next version v0.6 of its FromDual Performance Monitor for MySQL.

MySQL Performance Monitor with DRBD monitoring capabilities

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:25:31 +0000

The FromDual Performance Monitor for MySQL has now a new module for monitoring DRBD. Since more an more of our customers want to run MySQL High Availability solutions based on DRBD we have implemented this module.

MySQL High-Availability (HA) solutions

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:25:08 +0000

The following solutions are used with MySQL:

Redhat Cluster Suite (RHCS)
SteelEye LiefKeeper
Heartbeat (from the Linux HA project), Using Linux HA Heartbeat
Crossroads
Failover
DRBD, Using MySQL with DRBD
MySQL Cluster

MySQL on VMware Workstation/DRBD vs. VMWare ESX Server/SAN

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:05:00 +0000

Or an active-active failover cluster à la VMware.

Today I have learned about a totally crazy/cool looking architecture where the expensive VMware ESX server was replace by a free/cheap VMware Workstation version in combination with DRBD.

MySQL HA (high availability) Cluster cookbook

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:16:34 +0200

In the following article I have summarized some steps and hints to set-up a MySQL active/passive failover Cluster also sometimes called MySQL HA.