Common Setups

When you set up a complex system such as MySQL Cluster, you need to think about a number of architectural concepts, including topics such as load balancing with the MySQL servers themselves, designing for future scalability, and building a highly available setup. Quite commonly, you need to include additional software and integration between the different pieces of your server architecture. This chapter discusses some of the topics that are important regarding MySQL Cluster setups and suggests some commonly used possible solutions for the problems discussed.