More Reliable, More Resilient, More Redundant

Posted on Wed 17 April 2013 in presentations • Tagged with OpenStack • 1 min read

Another update on OpenStack’s progress in high availability, for the Grizzly and Havana releases. Presented at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, on April 17, 2013.


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High Availability Update (Grizzly and Havana)

Posted on Wed 20 February 2013 in presentations • Tagged with OpenStack • 1 min read

Another update on OpenStack’s progress in high availability, for the Grizzly and Havana releases. Presented at the Swiss OpenStack User Group meetup in Zurich, on February 19, 2013.


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Solid-state drives and Ceph OSD journals

Posted on Sun 13 January 2013 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph, Performance • 4 min read

Considerations for running Ceph OSD journals on SSDs.


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Adding MySQL/Galera resources to Pacemaker

Posted on Tue 04 December 2012 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Galera, MySQL, Pacemaker • 1 min read

Once you have one instance of Galera running, and it is running on the same node that holds the temporarily-configured cluster IP (192.168.122.99 in our example), you can add your resources to the Pacemaker cluster configuration.

Create a temporary file, such as /tmp/galera.crm, with the …


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Bootstrapping the Galera cluster

Posted on Tue 04 December 2012 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Galera, MySQL, Pacemaker • 1 min read

In order to bootstrap your Galera cluster, manually bring up the cluster IP address on the desired interface. In this example, we’ll use 192.168.122.99 and eth1:

ip address add 192.168.122.99/24 dev eth1 label eth1:galera

And initialize the Galera cluster:

mysqld --wsrep_cluster_address …

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