I’ve been doing lately quite many database clustering implementations; Oracle RAC and since we have many MySQL instances in production, had to find a good way to make MySQL instances highly available also.

One good solution for this is managing MySQL instances with clusterware and since we are planning to use Oracle RAC on Oracle Enterprise Linux anyway, then Oracle Clusterware is an excellent candidate for this task. Also… Oracle Clusterware is included with Oracle Enterprise Linux at no additional charge.

Requirements I had:

• Multiple MySQL instances running in the same cluster, in case of node failure affected MySQL instances are moved to any other surviving node (least loaded)
• Different MySQL instances may run different MySQL RDBMS software versions
• Each MySQL instance is listening to its own dedicated and clusterware managed IP address (so MySQL can always respond on default 3306 port and can move independently around nodes without any dependencies to other MySQL instances)
• Clusterware monitors each MySQL instance and in case of trouble automatically moves IP and starts instance on another cluster node

For this task I wrote some Bash scripts to help managing MySQL instances in Oracle Clusterware environment. All these scripts are available here: Google Code project page, also with documentation of the whole setup and how to use scripts: Documentation

All comments welcome!