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an OS cluster? &nbsp;MySQL Cluster is really a different beast that I am not interested in. &nbsp;Not sure why MySQL would care if the data is laid down on a SAN or not ... but thank you for the response.
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an OS cluster?  MySQL Cluster is really a different beast that I am not interested in.  Not sure why MySQL would care if the data is laid down on a SAN or not ... but thank you for the response.

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I think I'll just use VMWare under MySQL enterprise and be done with it....
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I think I'll just use VMWare under MySQL enterprise and be done with it....

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You are right. I am not sure why mysql would care about SAN. For that matter, I am not sure how mysql would even know if the disk is san or not, but the docs forbid it. Perhaps the latency is too much, or the file locking doesn't work as well. I dunno.
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You are right. I am not sure why mysql would care about SAN. For that matter, I am not sure how mysql would even know if the disk is san or not, but the docs forbid it. Perhaps the latency is too much, or the file locking doesn't work as well. I dunno.

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Would someone describe in detail the simplest solution for higher availability on MySQL 5 Community Edition?<br />
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I can stand a few minutes of downtime on an unexpected outage but need automated recovery and need to maintain data integrity (this is a DSS system so transaction integrity is not critical). &nbsp;Data is on a SAN and I have plenty of harware. &nbsp;Running instances on CentOS and Win 2003.<br />
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Thanks in advance!!!
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Would someone describe in detail the simplest solution for higher availability on MySQL 5 Community Edition?

I can stand a few minutes of downtime on an unexpected outage but need automated recovery and need to maintain data integrity (this is a DSS system so transaction integrity is not critical).  Data is on a SAN and I have plenty of harware.  Running instances on CentOS and Win 2003.

Thanks in advance!!!

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