1.

Describe what is in your opinion the ideal shared storage configuration when used by multiple
MySQL tenants on an Enterprise SAN (iSCSI, FC, NFS, etc).

2. How to best balance performance vs reliability in the solution to question #1. What are the trade
offs?

3. How are backups handled in your solution from question #1? Describe both how backups happen
and how restores are completed.

- No servers are replicated all are single server instances.

- Some servers need to back up every 8 hours, some Daily and some Weekly.
- You have root on the servers and will be expected to do the restore.
- Server restore time should be kept under 15 minutes, even for databases of multiple Terabytes.

4. You are asked to look at an issue a person in sales has brought up about a website running on the
LAMP cluster. You reviewed the logs on all the servers, cannot find any issues and nothing is standing
out. What is your plan to solve the issue?

5. You are working on a MySQL server. You are told that connections from the web server are not able
to work. You do not have access to the firewall but do have access to the database server. You also have
access to the web server. What is the plan, step by step to resolve the issue?