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 …

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 …

You now need configure Corosync. The following example configuration file assumes that your cluster nodes have two network interfaces, using the 192.168.122.0/24 and 192.168.133.0/24 networks. You will need to adjust this to your own network configuration.

Set the contents of /etc/corosync …

If an entire node happens to get killed, and that node currently does not hold the Galera IP (192.168.122.99 in our example), then the other nodes simply continue to function normally, and you can connect to and use them without interruption. In the example below, alice has …

In this walkthrough, you will create a Pacemaker managed MySQL/Galera cluster. It assumes that you are running on a Debian 6.0 (squeeze) box, but the concepts should be equally applicable to other platforms with minimal modifications.

It also assumes that your Galera cluster will consist of three nodes …