Best Practices Guide:
MySQL on Nutanix

Lower the TCO of your MySQL environment while still delivering top-notch performance

This best practices guide highlights why Nutanix is the ideal platform for virtualized instances of MySQL database systems. For business-critical transactional and analytical workloads, Nutanix delivers the performance, scalability, and availability that your IT staff (including basis and database administrators) requires.

We particularly focus on:

• An overview of delivering MySQL on the Nutanix virtualized platform.
• Choosing the right hardware for your MySQL deployment.
• Design and configuration considerations when architecting MySQL on the Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF).
• Settings for MySQL Enterprise Edition, MariaDB, and Percona Server for MySQL.
• Recommendations for implementing MySQL Database 5.x with InnoDB Storage Engine on Nutanix