Our team of MySQL database experts regularly blogs on topics that range from MySQL availability, MySQL replication, multi-master MySQL, and MySQL-aware proxies, all the way through to ‘how to’ content for our solutions: Tungsten Clustering, Tungsten Replicator and Tungsten Proxy.
Tungsten Cluster: How Does Failover Work? Part 1 of 3
Did you ever wonder just what the Tungsten Manager is thinking when it does an automatic failover or a manual switch in a cluster? What factors are taken into account by the Manager when it picks a replica to fail over to? This blog post will detail the steps the Manager takes to perform a switch or failover. We will cover both the process and some possible reasons why that process might not complete, along with best practices and ways to monitor the cluster for each situation.
Tungsten University, Cluster Management, Database Administration