Pacemaker 1.1.6 has landed in squeeze-backports

Martin has updated the Pacemaker packages in the Debian squeeze-backports repository to release 1.1.6; the latest Pacemaker release available from upstream. If you’re running the Pacemaker 1.1 series on Debian, you’re advised to update.

Announcing hastexo High Availability Expert training: Your chance to be a cluster ace!

We’ve just announced our new training format, hastexo High Availability Expert. If you’re an experienced high-availability engineer and you want to learn how to become a true top-notch clustering expert, this is for you.

Updated OCF Resource Agent Developer’s Guide now available

I have just published an updated OCF Resource Agent Developer’s Guide. This guide is the definitive handbook for authors of, and contributors to, resource agents for the Pacemaker based Linux High Availability stack.

Now available: Slides from Percona Live and Linuxcon Europe

The slides from last week’s talks I (co-)presented at Percona Live and Linuxcon Europe are now available from our web site.

• In my tutorial MySQL High Availability Sprint: Launch the Pacemaker, I gave a fast walk-through of Pacemaker high availability for MySQL. Tutorial presented at Percona Live UK 2011 in London, England.
• In Fencing and Maintaining Sanity in High Availability Clusters, Madison Kelly and I explored the importance of fencing in HA clusters, highlighted important considerations for fencing, and shared technical details and best practices. Talk presented at Linuxcon Europe 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic.

All slides are available entirely free of charge for logged-in users on our web site. To log in, you don’t even need to register — just use your Google Profile, or Google Apps account, or your WordPress account, or anything else that uses OpenID, and you’ll be good to go.

Comments on our slides are, of course, always highly appreciated.

Busy weeks ahead!

I’m speaking at Percona Live, LinuxCon Europe, and linux.conf.au. And I just co-founded a new company.