Tuesday, June 23, 2009

DRBD, Heartbeat and MySQL

The easiest solution to implement clustering in MySQL is DRBD and Heartbeat.

DRBD: The Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) is a software-based, shared-nothing, replicated storage solution mirroring the content of block devices (hard disks, partitions, logical volumes etc.) between servers.

DRBD mirrors data

  • In real time. Replication occurs continuously, while applications modify the data on the device.

  • Transparently. The applications that store their data on the mirrored device are oblivious of the fact that the data is in fact stored on several computers.

  • Synchronously or asynchronously. With synchronous mirroring, a writing application is notified of write completion only after the write has been carried out on both computer systems. Asynchronous mirroring means the writing application is notified of write completion when the write has completed locally, but before the write has propagated to the peer system


You can download DRDB from below site

http://www.drbd.org/download/packages/

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