[Pacemaker] 2 node failover cluster + MySQL Master-Master replica setup

Ruzsinszky Attila ruzsinszky.attila at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 11:14:20 EST 2010


Hi,

> And now (officially) RHCS can also use Pacemaker
> http://theclusterguy.clusterlabs.org/post/1551292286
Nice.

> Yeah, like I said, Master-Master and Pacemaker without a proper resource
> agent will cause issues.
Yes.

> big problems. Now let me explain this, a 2-node Multi-Master MySQL setup
> means setting up every node as both Master and Slave, node 1's Master
> replicates asynchronously to node 2's Slave and node 2's Master replicates
> asynchronously to node 1's Slave. The replication channels between the two
> are not redundant, nor do they recover from failure automatically and you
> have to manually set the auto-increment-increment and auto-increment-offset
> so that you don't have primary key collisions.
Clear.

> each server. Looking at how DRBD handles these kinds of things is one way to
> go about it, but ... it's a huge task and there are a lot of things that can
> go terribly wrong.
:-(

> So again, for the third time, the problem is not the Multi-Master setup, nor
> it is Pacemaker, it's just a very specific use case for which a resource
> agent wasn't written.
OK.
So now almost the only one possibilities is DRBD+MySQL?

TIA,
Ruzsi




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