Improve application resiliency and performance with Multi-AZ Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
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This article discusses how to improve application resiliency and performance using Multi-AZ Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, a fully managed file service offering high-performance, low-latency NFS access and advanced storage management features.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Architectural overview of Multi-AZ FSx for OpenZFS, which provides improved data durability, fault tolerance, and availability by replicating data synchronously across two Availability Zones
- Prerequisites for implementing and testing failover/failback using Multi-AZ FSx for OpenZFS
- Steps to test failover/failback by changing the throughput capacity of the file system, and monitoring the process using Amazon CloudTrail
- Application-level testing to verify the impact of failover/failback on a MariaDB database server running on an Amazon EC2 instance, using the mysqlslap tool
- Conclusion that Multi-AZ FSx for OpenZFS is recommended for production workloads due to its high availability and durability, ensuring application continuity during events like hardware failures or AZ disruptions
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