USA/Canada - Toll Free: +1-866-221-0634
USA - From abroad: +1-208-338-8100
USA/Canada - Subscription Renewals: +1-866-221-0634
Latin America: +1 512 535 7751
Brazil: +55 11 3020.3193
UK: +44 207 553 8447
Ireland: +353 1 8031050
Germany: +49 89 143 01280
France: +33 1 57 60 83 57
Sweden: +46 730 207 871
Benelux: +31 6 25003558
Italy: +39 02 249 59 120
Israel: +31 6 25003558
Spain & Portugal: +34 916312182
Other EMEA countries: +353 1 8031050
Asia Pacific: Toll Free
Organizations can cost-effectively deliver High Availability (HA) database solutions using MySQL, Linux Heartbeat, and Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD). Customer benefits include:
DRBD enables organizations to add high availability to new and existing business-critical MySQL systems including e-commerce, social networking, dynamic content management, online gaming and other online database applications. DRBD, together with MySQL Replication, is also an excellent solution for adding high availability to scale-out applications.
Leveraging the cluster management capabilities of Linux Heartbeat, DRBD delivers high availability requirements such as fail-over, node recovery, and data synchronization so that developers can focus on the core logic of their application. DRBD synchronously replicates data to another node in an Active/Passive configuration. In the event of a failure, Linux Heartbeat will promote the Passive node to an Active state. Since DRBD replicates data synchronously to the Passive node at all times, after promotion that data is immediately available on the other node. DRBD also manages efficient data re-synchronization on node recovery, and allows for quick failback if required. Therefore, developers don’t need to concern themselves with writing High Availability functionality into the application code.
Delivering a High Availability solution based on open source components protects you from proprietary vendor lock, which can result in unpredictable costs as the size of your application grows and the number of users increases exponentially. MySQL, Linux Heartbeat and DRBD all benefit from a community of millions of developers using these products everyday to build database and high availability applications. In addition, DRBD gives you the benefit of leveraging your existing skills by developing applications in your language of choice including C, C++, Perl/PHP/Python, Java, Ruby and more.