Fencing and Maintaining Sanity in High-Availability Clusters

Posted on Tue 01 November 2011 in presentations • Tagged with Conference

A 45-minute talk I co-presented with Madison Kelly at Linuxcon Europe 2011 in Prague. We explain the purpose of fencing, options for implementing fencing, and common pitfalls.

This presentation rounded out a series of high-availability talks at Linuxcon Europe 2011, the first Linuxcon event hosted by the Linux Foundation in …


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MySQL High Availability Sprint: Launch the Pacemaker!

Posted on Tue 01 November 2011 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, MySQL, Pacemaker

This is a very dense tutorial given at Percona Live UK 2011 in London, England. In three hours, I covered the MySQL HA Stack with Pacemaker and DRBD, front to back.


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