NIC teaming with MySQL Cluster

In this recipe, we will briefly discuss the specific requirements that a MySQL Cluster will bring to your network and show an example configuration with additional redundancy provided by a network. While this is not directly a troubleshooting step, it is an extremely common technique, and we cover the troubleshooting points during the recipe.

Getting ready

The strongly recommended best practice is to ensure that all nodes involved in your cluster have dedicated NICs connected to different switches.

It is also strongly recommended to ensure that a switch does not become a single point of failure and that the MySQL Cluster nodes are connected at least to two dedicated switches for redundancy.

The public network may also ...

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