Chapter 6. Measuring and Increasing Performance

Up to this point, we have created an active/passive cluster, added several resources to it, and tested its failover capabilities. We also discussed how to troubleshoot common issues. The final step in our journey consists of measuring and increasing the performance of our cluster as it has been installed so far—as far as the services running on it are concerned.

In addition, we will provide the overall instructions to convert your A/P cluster into an A/A one.

Setting up a sample database

In order to properly test our MariaDB database server, we need a database populated with sample data. For this reason, we will use the Employees database, developed by Patrick Crews and Giuseppe Maxia and provided by ...

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