How to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0

Tweet In order to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0 you must follow these rules:

1. IT IS ONLY POSSIBLE TO UPGRADE FROM 6.3 to at least 7.0.6!
2. I would recommend to upgrade from 6.3.x to 6.3.latest before doing the upgrade. If the upgrade does not work then and you have a good config.ini , you have probably hit a bug.
   
3. You cannot upgrade from 6.3 to the multi-threaded binary of 7.0.6 in one go.
   You have to upgrade from 'ndbd' (6.3) --> 'ndbd' (7.0.6)
   Then you can do 'ndbd' (7.0.6) --> 'ndbmtd' (7.0.6)

So don't try to upgrade to 7.0.5 - it will fail.
As usual when upgrading (version, configuration variables etc) you must do a rolling restart and restart:

1. ndb_mgmd (management servers)
2. ndbd (data nodes)
3. mysqld (mysql servers / direct api applications)

Distribute the 7.0.6 binaries
Copy the binaries to each host (i.e., replace existing 6.3 binaries) in the cluster.

Upgrading the Management Server(s)

In 6.3 you started the management server as (e.g):

ndb_mgmd -f /etc/mysql/config.ini

In 7.0.6 you have to start them slightly differently, but first you have to stop both (if you have two, but you really should) management servers (because of this bug):

killall ndb_mgmd

And.. I never use the management client to start/stop nodes, because I think it works sometimes which makes it difficult to file bugs on, and hard to rely on.

When you have killed both you can then do:

ndb_mgmd -f /etc/mysql/config.ini --configdir=/etc/mysql --reload

The management server in 7.0.6 writes a binary config file in --configdir, which is a configuration cache. --reload will reload the config.ini and update that cache.

Upgrading the Data Nodes

Restart the data nodes on each machine one at a time:

killall ndbd
ndbd --ndb-nodeid=X --ndb-connectstring="managementhostA;managementhostB"
ndb_waiter --ndb-connectstring="managementhostA;managementhostB"
# when ndb_waiter exits, you can restart the next data node.

Upgrading the MySQL Servers/Direct APIs

Stop and start the mysql servers:

killall mysqld  #(or mysqladmin shutdown , both sends signal 15)
mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/etc/config/my.cnf

Upgrading to multithreaded 7.0.6 data nodes

When the Cluster has been restarted with 7.0.6 you can upgrade to multithreaded data nodes.
The binary for the multithreaded data node is called 'ndbmtd'.

You need to set in config.ini (on both management servers):

[ndbd default]
..
MaxNoOfExecutionThreads=#number of cores you have (up to 8)
..

Then stop both management servers

killall ndb_mgmd

When you have killed both you can then start both by doing:

ndb_mgmd -f /etc/mysql/config.ini --configdir=/etc/mysql --reload

and then restart the data nodes one at a time:

killall ndbd
ndbmtd --ndb-nodeid=X --ndb-connectstring="managementhostA;managementhostB"
ndb_waiter --ndb-connectstring="managementhostA;managementhostB"
# when ndb_waiter exits, you can restart the next data node.

Using Severalnines Configurator

If you have a Severalnines installation of MySQL Cluster 6.3, then you can upgrade in the following way:

1. Make sure you have have the files:
mysqlcluster-xy/cluster/scripts/install/.s9s/hostnames
mysqlcluster-xy/cluster/scripts/install/.s9s/ndb_hostnames
mysqlcluster-xy/cluster/scripts/install/.s9s/mysql_hostnames
mysqlcluster-xy/cluster/scripts/install/.s9s/mgm_hostnames
Otherwise you have a too old version of the Configurator package and you need to generate a new one.
2. Generate a new Config using 7.0.6 with the same nodes, data memory, data dirs etc.
   Select "no MT" when asked for "Number of cores:"
   
   
   
3. Install the package
   Let's assume you have 6.3 in:
   

   /root/mysqlcluster-63/

   Install mysqlcluster-70.tar.gz
   

   cd /root/
   tar xvfz mysqlcluster-70.tar.gz
   cd mysqlcluster-70/cluster/scripts/install

   Copy the .s9s catalog from 6.3 so you get the hostnames
   

   cp  -r /root/mysqlcluster-63/cluster/scripts/install/.s9s  .

4. Download the binary or build the source:
   

   ./download-binary.sh
   

   or
   

   ./download-and-compile.sh
   

5. Install and perform a rolling restart
   

   ./install-cluster.sh
   cd ..
   ./rolling-restart.sh
   

6. Change from ndbd --> ndbmtd
   

   vi ../config/config.ini
   

   Locate MaxNoOfExecutionThreads and, un-comment it if needed and set it to as many cores as you have:
   

   [ndbd default]
   ...
   MaxNoOfExecutionThreads=8
   ...

   Then change in the scripts from ndbd -> ndbmtd
   

   sed -i 's#libexec/ndbd#libexec/ndbmtd#g' *.sh
   

   Important! Don' leave out 'libexec' above!
   And do a rolling restart:
   

   ./rolling-restart.sh

7. Luckily it is much easier to upgrade from e.g 7.0.6 to 7.0.x and I will show when 7.0.7 is out how to do that in two lines.
   

Webinar - MySQL Cluster: Architectural Deep Dive

Tweet There will be a webinar presented by Tomas Ulin (Director MySQL Server Technologies) and Matthew Keep (MySQL Cluster Product Management). The webinar covers:

• how MySQL Cluster achieves predictable and consistent real time performance
• how MySQL Cluster achieves continuous availability with sub-second fail-over, automated recovery and geographic replication
• how MySQL Cluster enables users to dynamically scale throughput and data capacity
• how to get started with MySQL Cluster

and I will be on the panel anwering your questions!

When: Wednesday 17th of June 2009, 0930PST/1230EST/1730GMT/1830CET/
See details and how to register here.

MySQL Cluster - versions NOT to use!

Tweet If you are using the following versions of MySQL Cluster:

MySQL Cluster 6.3.17 - SHOW TABLES can drop tables...
MySQL Cluster 6.3.18 - the above wasn't really fixed (fixed in 6.3.20)
MySQL Cluster 6.3.19 - the above wasn't really fixed (fixed in 6.3.20)
MySQL Cluster 6.3.21 - regression, pulled back because of this.

If you are on any of these versions - then upgrade!
The latest source and binary release is MySQL Cluster 6.3.24.