The document discusses automation and management of database clusters using ClusterControl software from Severalnines. It covers the database infrastructure lifecycle including deploying, monitoring, managing, and scaling database clusters. ClusterControl provides automation and management capabilities for provisioning, monitoring systems and database performance, managing multiple database clusters across data centers, and automating tasks like repair, recovery, upgrades, backups and scaling. The presentation includes a demo and discusses Severalnines customers.

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Automation and Management of
Database Clusters
June 24, 2014
Jean-Jérôme Schmidt
Severalnines
jj@severalnines.com

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Agenda
 Database Infrastructure Lifecycle
 Deploy, Monitor, Manage, Scale
 ClusterControl Overview
 Demo
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Database Infrastructure Lifecycle
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Database TCO
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Source: IDC, Maximizing the Business Value of Enterprise Database Applications

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Infrastructure Lifecycle
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Manage Scale
MonitorDeploy

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Deployment
- Beyond Puppet or Chef
 Puppet/Chef are appropriate for a group of single-node
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 E.g. webservers can be clones of each other..
 Distributed databases are complex
 Different node types & roles
 Orchestration of procedures in a specific order
 Using e.g. Chef for deploying a distributed database
 Yes, it is possible
 Not much Chef functionality is leveraged
 Prepare to write code
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Monitoring
- Beyond Nagios
 What do you do when the application is slow?
 Is it Disk? CPU? RAM? Badly written queries?
 What are the symptoms? (Replication queues, Page
Faults, locks, # connections, …)
 How do you avoid problems?
 How do you plan for capacity?
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Management
- Beyond Monitoring
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Scaling
- Beyond Manual Operations
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ClusterControl Overview
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ClusterControl
In a nutshell
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Manage Scale
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Supported Databases
SQL
 MariaDB Cluster
 MySQL Galera Cluster
(Codership)
 Percona XtraDB Cluster
 MySQL Cluster (NDB)
 MySQL Replication 5.6
 Standalone MySQL/MariaDB
NoSQL
 MongoDB Sharded Cluster
 MongoDB Replica Set
 TokuMX Cluster
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ClusterControl
Automation & Management
 Provisioning
 Deploy a cluster in minutes
 On-premises or in the cloud
 Monitoring
 Systems view
 1sec resolution
 DB / OS stats & performance advisors
 Real-time / historical
 Management
 Multi cluster/data-center
 Automate repair/recovery, upgrades, backups, cloning,…
 One-click scaling
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Demo
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Customers
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Thank You!
 Cluster Configurator
 www.severalnines.com/config
 ClusterControl
 www.severalnines.com/clustercontrol
 Severalnines Blog
 www.severalnines.com/blog
 Contact: jj@severalnines
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