Deploying MySQL on Oracle Clusterware – Part 5
Installing MySQL There are a few ways to get the MySQL software set up for clustering. One option is to install the rpm for MySQL on both cluster nodes. There is also a tar file containing what you need to create a yum repository that can be used by multiple servers. You could also use a tar of the software and just extract it to a shared filesystem. The benefit of the last option is that you can have multiple instances of MySQL hosted on the same cluster running different versions. I decided to have MySQL 5.7 installed from a yum repository, but also have a MySQL 5.6 home extracted from a tar in case you needed to run an older version concurrently. At the time of writing, I used the following patches from MOS as they had the latest versions of… Read More »Deploying MySQL on Oracle Clusterware – Part 5