Scaling with sync_replication using Galera and EC2

Scaling MySQL using multi master
synchronous replication

Marco “the Grinch” Tusa
Percona Live London2013

About Me

Introduction

Marco “The Grinch”
• Former Pythian cluster technical leader
• Former MySQL AB PS (EMEA)
• Love programming
• History of religions
• Ski; Snowboard; scuba diving; Mountain
trekking

Agenda
• Customer requirements
• Installation and initial setup
• Applying the customer scenario to solution
• Numbers, and considerations.
• Scaling out test and efforts
• Scaling in test and efforts
• Geographic distribution
Introduction

Many Galera Talks
• PERCONA XTRADB CLUSTER IN A NUTSHELL :
HANDS ON TUTORIAL
Tutorial Monday
• Galera Cluster 3.0 New Features. Seppo Jaakola
Presentation Tuesday
• HOW TO UNDERSTAND GALERA REPLICATION
Alexey Yurchenko Presentation Tuesday
Introduction

A journey started 2 yeas ago
• First work done as POC in November 2011

• First implementation in production January 2012
• Many more after
• Last done 12 clusters of 5 nodes with 18 to 24
application server attached

Introduction

Historical Real life case
Customer mentions the need to scale for writes.
My first though went to NDB.
Customer had specific constrains:
• Amazon EC2;
• No huge instances (medium preferred);
• Number of instances Increase during peak seasons;
• Number of Instances must be reduced during regular period;
• Customer use InnoDB as storage engine in his current platform and
will not change;
Customer requirements

Refine the customer requirements
Challenging architecture design, and proof of concept on a real case of study using Synchronous
solution.
Customer asks us to investigate and design MySQL architecture to support his application serving
shops around the globe.
Scale out and scale in base to sales seasons. We will share our experience presenting the results of
our POC High level outline
Customer numbers:
• Range of operation/s from 20 to 30,000 (5.000 inserts/sec)
• Selects/Inserts 70/30 %
• Application servers from 2 to ∞
• MySQL servers from 2 to ∞
• Operation from 20 bytes to max 1Mb (text)
• Data set dimension 40GB (Old data is archive every year)
• Geographic distribution (3 -> 5 zones), partial dataset


My Motto
Use the right tool for the job


Scaling Up vs. Out
Scaling Up Model
• Require more investment
• Not flexible and not a good fit with MySQL

Scaling Out Model
• Scale by small investment
• Flexible
• Fits in MySQL model (HA, load balancing etc.)

Scaling Reads vs Write
•

Read Easy way of doing in MySQL if % of write is low
Write
Read

•Write
• Replication is not working
• Single process
• No data consistency check
• Parallel replication by schema is not
• Semi synchronous replication is not

the solution
the solution as well

Synchronous Replication in MySQL
MySQL cluster, I
NDBCluster
•
Really synchronous
•
Data distribution and Internal partitioning
•
The only real solution giving you 9 9. 9 9 9 % (5 minutes) max
downtime
•
NDB Cluster is more then a simple storage engine (use API if you can)
Galera replication
•
Virtually Synchronous
•
No data consistency check (optimistic lock)
•
Data replicated by Commit
•
Use InnoDB
Options Overview

Choosing the solution
Did I say I
NDB Cluster?
–But not a good fit here because:
•EC2 dimension (1 CPU 3.7GB RAM);
•Customer does not want to change from InnoDB;
•Need to train the developer to get out maximum from it;
–Galera

could be a better fit because:
•Can fit in the EC2 dimension;
•Use InnoDB;
•No additional knowledge when develop the solution;

Options Overview

Architecture Design

Final architecture simple and powerful

Architecture Design
Application layer
in the cloud

Load Balancer distributing
request in RR

Data
layer in
the cloud

MySQL instance
geographically
distributed

Architecture AWS blocks

EC2 small
instance
EC2 medium
instance

Instances EC2
Web servers
• Small instance
• Local EBS

Data Servers
• Medium instance 1 CPU 3.7GB RAM
• 1 EBS OS
• 6 EBS RAID0 for data
Be ready to scale OUT
• Create an AMI
• Get AMI update at regular base

Architecture EC2 blocks

Why not ephemeral storage
RAID0 against 6 EBS is performing faster;
•

RAID approach will mitigate possible temporary degradation;

•

Ephemeral is … ephemeral, all data will get lost;

Numbers with rude comparison
(ebs) Timing buffered disk reads:

768 MB in

3.09 seconds = 248.15 MB/sec

(eph)Timing buffered disk reads:

296 MB in

3.01 seconds =

(ebs)Timing O_DIRECT disk reads:

814 MB in


(eph)Timing O_DIRECT disk reads:

2072 MB in

Architecture Installation and numbers

98.38 MB/sec


Why not ephemeral storage (cont.)


Storage on EC2
Multiple EBS RAID0
Or
USE Provisioned IOPS
Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes:
Amazon EBS Standard volumes:
$0.10 per GB-month of provisioned storage $0.125 per GB-month of provisioned storage
$0.10 per provisioned IOPS-month
$0.10 per 1 million I/O requests


Instances EC2

How we configure the EBS.
• Use Amazon EC2 API Tools
(http://aws.amazon.com/developertools/351)
• Create 6 EBS
• Attach them to the running instance
Run mdadm as root (sudo mdadm --verbose --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --chunk=256 --

raid-devices=6 /dev/xvdg1 /dev/xvdg2 /dev/xvdg3 /dev/xvdg4 /dev/xvdg5 /dev/xvdg6 echo 'DEVICE
/dev/xvdg1 /dev/xvdg2 /dev/xvdg3 /dev/xvdg4 /dev/xvdg5 /dev/xvdg6' | tee -a /etc/mdadm.conf sudo

)
Create an LVM to allow possible easy increase of data size
Format using ext3 (no journaling)
Mount it using noatime nodiratime
Run hdparm –t [--direct] <device> to check it works properly
mdadm --detail --scan | sudo tee -a /etc/mdadm.conf

Installation

Instances EC2 (cont.)

You can install MySQL using RPM, or if you want to have a better
life and upgrade (or downgrade) faster do:
•Create a directory like /opt/mysql_templates
•Get

MySQL binary installation and expand it in the
/opt/mysql_templates
•Create

symbolic link /usr/local/mysql against the version you
want to use
•Create

the symbolic links also in the /usr/bin directory ie

(for bin in `ls -D /usr/local/mysql/bin/`; do ln -s /usr/local/mysql/bin/$bin /usr/bin/$bin; done)

Installation

Create the AMI
•

Once I had the machines ready and standardized.
o
o

•

Create AMI for the MySQL –Galera data node;
Create AMI for Application node;

AMI will be used for expanding the cluster and or in case of

crashes.

Installation

Problem in tuning - MySQL
MySQL optimal configuration for the environment
•
•

Dirty page;

•

Innodb write/read threads;

•

Binary logs (no binary logs unless you really need them);

•

Doublebuffer;

•

Setup

Correct Buffer pool, InnoDB log size;

Innodb Flush log TRX commit & concurrency;

Problem in tuning - Galera

Galera optimal configuration for the environment
evs.send_window Maximum messages in replication at a time
• evs.user_send_window Maximum data messages in replication
at a time
• wsrep_slave_threads which is the number of threads used by
Galera to commit the local queue
• gcache.size
• Flow Control
• Network/keep alive settings and WAN replication
•

Setup

Applying the customer scenario
How I did the tests. What I have used.
Stresstool (my development) Java
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

•
•

Test application

Multi thread approach (each thread a connection);
Configurable number of master table;
Configurable number of child table;
Variable (random) number of table in join;
Can set the ratio between R/W/D threads;
Tables can have Any data type combination;
Inserts can be done simple or batch;
Reads can be done by RANGE, IN, Equal;
Operation by set of commands not single SQL;

Applying the customer scenario
(cont.)

How I did the tests.
• Application side
•
I have gradually increase the number of thread per instance of
stresstool running, then increase the number of instance.
• Data layer
•
Start with 3 MySQL;
•
Up to 7 Node;
• Level of request
•
From 2 Application blocks to 12;
•
From 4 threads for “Application” block;
•
To 64 threads for “Application” block (768);

Test application

Numbers

Table with numbers (writes) for 3 nodes cluster and bad replication
traffic

Bad commit behavior

Numbers in Galera replication
What happened to the replication?

Bad commit behavior

Changes in replication settings
Problem was in commit efficiency & Flow Control

Reviewing Galera documentation I choose to change:
•

evs.send_window=1024 (Maximum packets in replication at a
time.);

•

evs.user_send_window=1024 (Maximum data packets in
replication at a time);

•

wsrep_slave_threads=48;

Bad commit behavior

Numbers After changes (cont.)

Table with numbers (writes) for 3-5-7 nodes and increase traffic

Using MySQL 5.5

Table with numbers (writes) for 3-5-7 nodes and increase traffic

Using MySQL 5.5

Other problems…
This is what happen if one node starts to have issue?

Tests & numbers


Rebuild the node, re-attach it to the cluster and the status is:

Tests & numbers

Going further and removing Binary log writes:

Tests & numbers

Numbers for reads traffic
Select for 3 -7 nodes cluster and increase

Tests & numbers

Many related metrics
From 4 – 92 threads

Tests & numbers Real HW

FC on real HW
From 4 – 92 threads

Tests & numbers Real HW

How to scale OUT
The effort to scale out is:
• Launch a new instance from AMI (IST Sync if
wsrep_local_cache_size big enough otherwise SST);
•

Always add nodes in order to have ODD number of nodes;

Modify the my.cnf to match the server ID and IP of the master
node;
•

•

Start MySQL

•

Include node IP in the list of active IP of the load balancer

•

The whole operation normally takes less then 30 minutes.

Scaling

How to scale IN
The effort to scale IN is minimal:
Remove the data nodes IP from load balancer (HAProxy);
• Stop MySQL
• Stop/terminate the instance
•

Scaling

How to Backup:
If using provisioning and one single volumes
contains al, snapshot is fine.
Otherwise I like the Jay solution:
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2013/10/08
/taking-backups-percona-xtradb-cluster-withoutstalls-flow-control/
Using wsrep_desync=OFF

Failover and HA
With MySQL and Galera, unless issue all the nodes should contain
the same data.
Performing failover will be not necessary for the whole service.
Cluster in good health
Cluster with failed node

So the fail over is mainly an operation at load balancer (HAProxy
works great) and add another new Instance (from AMI).

Geographic distribution
With Galera it is possible to set the cluster to replicate cross
Amazon’s zones.
I have tested the implementation of 3 geographic location:
• Master location (1 to 7 nodes);
•

First distributed location (1 node to 3 on failover);

•

Second distributed location (1 node to 3 on failover);

No significant delay were reported, when the distributed nodes remain
passive.
•

Good to play with:

keepalive_period inactive_check_period suspect_timeout
inactive_timeout install_timeout

Geographic distribution

Problems with Galera
During the tests we face the following issues:
•

MySQL data node crash auto restart, recovery (Galera in loop)

•

Node behind the cluster, replica is not fully synchronous, so the
local queue become too long, slowing down the whole cluster

•

Node after restart acting slowly, no apparent issue, no way to
have it behaving as it was before clean shutdown, happening
randomly, also possible issue due to Amazon.
Faster solution build another node and attach it in place of the
failing.

Conclusions

Did we match the expectations?
Our numbers were:
•

From 1,200 to ~10,000 (~3,000 in prod) inserts/sec

•

27,000 reads/sec with 7 nodes

•

From 2 to 12 Application servers (with 768 request/sec)

•

EC2 medium 1 CPU and 3.7GB!!
o

In Prod Large 7.5GB 2 CPU.
I would say mission accomplished!

Conclusions

Consideration about the solution
Pro
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Flexible;

•

Use well known storage engine;

•

Once tuned is “stable” (if Cloud permit it);

Cons
•

!WAS! New technology not included in a official cycle of development;

•

Some times fails without clear indication of why, but is getting better;

•

Replication is still not fully Synchronous (on write/commit);

Conclusions

Monitoring
Control what is going on is very important
Few tool are currently available and make sense for me:

Jay Janssen
https://github.com/jayjanssen/myq_gadgets/blob/master/myq_status
ClusterControl for MySQL
http://www.severalnines.com/resources/user-guide-clustercontrol-mysql
Percona Cacti monitor template

Conclusions

Thank you
To contact Me
marco.tusa@percona.com
marcotusa@tusacentral.net
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