MySQL High Availability Deep Dive

Posted on Mon 03 December 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, MySQL, Pacemaker, Galera

This is a tutorial that Yves Trudeau and I presented at the Percona Live UK 2012 conference in London. It covers Pacemaker integration with DRBD, MySQL Replication, and Galera.


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GlusterFS in High Availability Clusters

Posted on Thu 08 November 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, GlusterFS

My Pacemaker presentation from the GlusterFS Workshop at LinuxCon Europe 2012. Presented in Barcelona in November of 2012, this is a overview of integrating GlusterFS with the Pacemaker cluster stack.

This tutorial gives an overview of

  • The Pacemaker stack,
  • Using GlusterFS for Pacemaker storage,
  • Managing GlusterFS volumes from Pacemaker.

My …


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Hands-On With Ceph

Posted on Thu 08 November 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph, Conference

My Ceph tutorial from LinuxCon Europe 2012. Presented in Barcelona in November of 2012, this is a dense summary of the features of the Ceph distributed storage stack.

This tutorial gives an overview of

  • Native RADOS object storage,
  • The RBD block device,
  • ReSTful object storage with radosgw,
  • the Ceph distributed …

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High Availability in OpenStack

Posted on Thu 30 August 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack

An update on high-availability development during the OpenStack Folsom development cycle. This presentation was delivered August 30, 2012 in San Diego, California. It was part of the inaugural CloudOpen conference hosted by the Linux Foundation.

Following up on my earlier talks at OpenStack Summit and OSCON, I summarized the high-availability …


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Highly Available Cloud: Pacemaker integration with OpenStack

Posted on Tue 17 July 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack, Pacemaker

This presentation was delivered July 17, 2012 at OSCON in Portland, Oregon.

I summarize high availability in OpenStack Folsom, particularly OpenStack integration with the Pacemaker high availability cluster stack.

I talk about high availability shortcomings in OpenStack Essex, comparing OpenStack to some of its important competitors. I then explain how …


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