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FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 0.9.3 of its popular FromDual Ops Center focmm, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for MariaDB and MySQL.

The FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL (focmm) helps DBA's and System Administrators to better manage their MariaDB and MySQL database farms. Ops Center makes DBA and Admins life easier!

There are some pretty sophisticated Load Balancers for Galera Clusters setups out in the market (ProxySQL, MaxScale, HAproxy, ...). They have many different exotic features. You can nearly do everything with them. But this comes at the cost of complexity. Non of them is simple any more.

When you install a Galera Cluster for MySQL for High Availability (HA) it is not enough to install the Database Cluster to achieve this goal. You also have to make the application aware of this HA functionality. This is typically done with some kind of load balancing mechanism between the database and the application.

We have several possibilities how to make such a load balancing possible: