Previously, we had blogged about backing up your Moodle MySQL Database. This time, it's all about backing up your Moodle MariaDB Database. In fact, it shares the same approach when backing up your Moodle MySQL...

Monitoring is a basic requirement when running a system in production, and especially important if you are running a  highly available database for Moodle. Monitoring helps you understand the current state of your database, the...

Moodle, an open source Learning Management System, became more and more popular in last year as the pandemic forced hard lockdowns and majority of the education activities have moved from schools, colleges and universities to...

To run a clustered Moodle system efficiently, one has to allocate sufficient resources to the essential services required by Moodle. This is not an easy task, and it requires a lot of ongoing tuning until...

Moodle is a Learning Management System (LMS) designed to provide educators, administrators, and learners with a single robust, secure, and integrated system to create personalized learning environments. It supports different database technologies (e.g. MariaDB, MySQL,...

There is a huge demand for a highly available Moodle system to have a Galera Cluster as the database backend due to its growing popularity and robustness. Galera Cluster turns the popular MySQL and MariaDB...

One of the key aspects of high availability is the ability to quickly react to failures. It is not uncommon to manually manage databases, and have monitoring software keep an eye on database health. In...

In our previous blogs, we made justification for why you need a database failover and have explained how a failover mechanism works. I’m sharing this in case you have questions on why you should set...

Moodle, the world's most popular learning management system (LMS), is commonly being deployed in a rapidly growing and large scale environment. Fortunately, Moodle is built with availability and scalability in mind, with lots of tools,...

In a previous blog, we had discussed how to migrate a standalone Moodle setup to scalable setup based on a clustered database.  The next step you will need to think about is the failover mechanism...

Data is an essential part of running a Moodle environment. Should the IT operations team lose data accidentally, then it could lead to a huge loss. So, to protect valuable information, sysadmins need to back...

Institutions around the world are investing in their eLearning platforms to meet global demand. ClusterControl helps organizations with easy deployment and management of highly available database clusters. PRESS RELEASE UPDATED: JAN 18, 2021 STOCKHOLM, January 18,...