Sounds like you might be interested in Emic Networks' Application
Cluster 2.0 for MySQL. We've begun taking a look at it ourselves --
without arriving at any conclusions at this point.
(However, it is not strictly a hardware solution.)
General Info:
http://www.emicnetworks.com/products/mysql.html
Features:
http://www.emicnetworks.com/products/mysql_features.html
--Fail-over Clustering
--Multi-Master Architecture
Robert J Taylor
robert@stripped
PARTHA DUTTA, BLOOMBERG/ 499 PARK wrote:
>Hello all, I would like to find out if anyone has implemented an architecture
>where a hardware load balancer is placed in front of some MySQL servers in a
>Multi-master replication scheme. I want to use the load balancer more for high
>availability, than for load balancing. All connections to the database server
>would go the mysql server 1. If server1 fails, the load balancer should send all
> connections to server 2, etc. Thanks for any insight on any implementation
>gotchas.
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>Partha Dutta
>Bloomberg, L.P.
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