Showing posts with label cloud database. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cloud database. Show all posts

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Walking on Cloud 9

As the saying goes, we at Severalnines have been walking on several clouds this year, 9 to be precise!


Today, we are proud to say that we are on walking on Cloud 9!


And in the spirit of celebration, we would like to announce our:



Top 9 Clouds of the Year 2011 for Severalnines



Cloud 1 – releasing ClusterControl™ - our first commercial product in April!


ClusterControl™ is our flagship product. It enables developers and database administrators to Deploy, Manage, Monitor and Scale their clustered database platforms, free from the complexity and learning curves associated with database clusters. Read more ...



Cloud 2 – releasing ClusterControl™ for MySQL Replication


Designed to address issues and needs of MySQL users relying on MySQL Replication, ClusterControl™ for MySQL Replication offers a complete set of tools to assist developers and administrators of all skill levels to deploy, manage, monitor and scale their replicated MySQL databases. Read more ...



Cloud 3 - releasing ClusterControl™ for MySQL Galera together with Codership

ClusterControl™ for MySQL Galera enables customers to Deploy, Manage, Monitor and Scale a clustered MySQL database platform based on Galera Replication. MySQL Galera is a synchronous multi-master cluster for MySQL/InnoDB, and allows applications to read and write from any MySQL Server.

Developers and DBAs now have access to all of the features of Severalnines' flagship product ClusterControl™ specifically adapted to MySQL Galera. Read more ...


Cloud 4 – reaching over 7,000 installations via the Severalnines Configurator


The Severalnines Configurator allows you to generate a production class configuration for a clustered MySQL configuration. It also generates a deployment package that automates the deployment of the complete database setup. Topologies can be based on MySQL Replication, MySQL Cluster or MySQL Galera.


We have a great user base and in order to facilitate communication within our user community, we set up our Severalnines Customer Services platform with forums, online support, etc. both for paying customers as well as users. Check it out and join the conversation!



Cloud 5 – our Customers


At Severalnines, our goal is to reduce database costs, ease deployment, simplify management and increase DBA and developer productivity.


But rather than us telling you why we think we are great, we wanted to provide documented case studies on how our innovative products are helping customers meet and exceed business goals for their database operations. See what our customers have to say about us.



Cloud 6 – introducing Severalnines DataCloud™


Severalnines DataCloud™ enables DBaaS for public, private and hybrid clouds. It extends the advantages of cloud computing to the database infrastructure layer by enabling on-demand access, automated management, managed availability and elasticity of MySQL databases. This reduces cost and the complexities of deploying and managing databases. Read more ...



Cloud 7 – launching the first ever 100% European DbaaS with City Network


On November 23rd, Severalnines and our partner City Network announced the first fully European Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution - in beta form. The City Cloud Database Service is based and operated in the European Union - offering European customers full compliance with EU Directive on Data Protection 95/46/EC and a safe haven from the reaches of the US Patriot Act and making it the first ever offering of its kind. Read more ...



Cloud 8 – being talked about at the European Commission – Severalnines in the News


Following our announcement of the City Cloud Database Service, the press took over and 20+ original articles later, we discovered that we were even being talked about at European Commission conferences. Which shows to prove that politicians do read the papers (or are well briefed by colleagues who do) and that we had hit the right spot with our announcement. Find out more and see all the press coverage in our News Center.



Cloud 9 – winning the EuroCloud Sweden & Europe Awards 2011 for Best Startup!!!


We did it! After winning the EuroCloud Award for Sweden, we won the EuroCloud Europe Award for Best Startup last week in Paris at a prestigious ceremony on the Seine. We attended the ceremony together with our friends from City Network and needless to say that we had a great night! The Awards have been widely covered by the European press in multiple languages – visit our News Center for all the details.


All in all, it's been a great year for us and we have all of you to thank for that!


So here is a BIG 'thank you' from everyone at Severalnines to all our customers, partners, friends and supporters out there.


Have a great year-end and and an even better start to the year 2012 - see you there!


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About Severalnines

Severalnines provides automation and management software for easily usable, highly available and auto-scalable cloud database platforms. ClusterControl™, the company’s flagship product, used by developers and administrators of all skill levels, addresses the full deploy-manage-monitor-scale cycle. Severalnines has enabled over 7,000 deployments to date via its popular online configurator for clustered MySQL databases.

To see who is using Severalnines today, please visit our references page.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

MySQL Clusters on Amazon EC2 - verified AMIs

We regularly receive questions from our user community with regards to which AMIs to use when deploying database clusters on Amazon EC2.

As part of our ongoing development work on the Severalnines Configurator and ClusterControl, we have recently done some testing on deploying MySQL Cluster on EC2 using Severalnines on three different AMIs. We thought we should share the results of these tests, hence the reason for this week's blog!

If you would like to test such a deployment yourself, feel free to use the parameters and guidelines below to do so. You can also check out these new videos to see Severalnines technology in action prior to getting started with your testing.

These are the three AMIs that we have tested the deployment on so as to have a good representative mix:

* RightImage_CentOS_5.4_x64_v5.5.9
* Amazon QuickStart AMI: amzn-ami-2011.02.1.x86_64-ebs
* Canonical AMI: ubuntu-maverick-5g-64bit

Of course, it would be great to hear from you on how your testing went and on what AMIs you are currently using yourself. Feel free to share your feedback with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or leave a comment on this blog.

Here are the parameters that you can use to test your MySQL Cluster deployment using the Severalnines Configurator.

In all cases, the Internal IP was used as the Hostname in the Configurator and the following was used for all tests:

* Instance type: m1.larg
* Number of instances: 5 (1 for ClusterControl), 2 for data nodes, 2 for MySQL servers and management servers.

RightImage_CentOS_5.4_x64_v5.5.9 (ami-0f42a966)

* Cloud Provider [Configurator]: Amazon EC2
* OS user [Configurator]: root
* Operating System [Configurator]: Redhat/Fedora/Centos/Oracle
* Data directories [Configurator]: /mnt/data/mysqlcluster for data nodes and management servers and /mnt/data/mysql (for the mysql servers) both RPM and tar.gz installation was tested using 'deploy.sh'

Canonical AMI: ubuntu-maverick-5g-64bit (ami-ac41b7c5)

* Cloud Provider [Configurator]: Amazon EC2
* OS user [Configurator]: ubuntu
* Operating System [Configurator]: Ubuntu/Debian
* DataMemory [Configurator]: 512MB
Set it down in the Configurator - yes, it is tiny, but the default disk in this AMI is tiny, so you should add a 20GB EBS Volume if you want to test with the default suggested DataMemory
* Data directories [Configurator]: default suggested ones.
* Installation was tested using 'deploy.sh'

Amazon QuickStart AMI: amzn-ami-2011.02.1.x86_64-ebs (ami-8e1fece7)


* Cloud Provider [Configurator]: Amazon EC2
* OS user [Configurator]: ec2-user
* Operating System [Configurator]: Redhat/Fedora/Centos/Oracle
* DataMemory [Configurator]: 512MB
Set it down in the Confgurator. Yes, it is tiny, but the default disk in this AMI is tiny, so you should add a 20GB EBS Volume if you want to test with the default suggested DataMemory.
* Data directories [Configurator]: default suggested ones.
* .tar.gz installation using 'deploy.sh' no problems.
* RPM installation - dependency problems with libmysqlclient.so.16 vs libmysqlclient.so.14.
This can be fixed by editing the mysqlcluster-71-rpm/cluster/scripts/install/install-rpm.sh before running 'deploy.sh':
Change this, in the function named install_rpm_cmonmysql() :
MySQL-Cluster-gpl-shared-compat-${version}-1.${rhel}.${arch}.rpm
to
MySQL-Cluster-gpl-shared-${version}-1.${rhel}.${arch}.rpm
Now you can run ./deploy.sh

Finally, do not forget to set the EC2 Keypair in the Configurator and upload it to the ClusterControl server before running deploy.sh.

You should now be up and running with your MySQL Cluster on EC2; if you have any questions or comments, please do let us know. We welcome your feedback on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or directly on this blog.

For more information on AMIs: http://aws.amazon.com/amis/
For more information on EC2: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/