In a recent article, I described how to setup a basic MySQL Cluster with two data nodes and a combined SQL and management node. In this article, I am going to highlight a hew more things and we are going to adapt the cluster a little bit.

Using Hostnames

For making our lives easier, we can use hostnames which are easier to remember than IP addresses. Hostnames can be specified for each VM in the file /etc/hosts. For each request to the hostname, the operating system will lookup the corresponding IP address. We need to change this file on all three nodes to the following example: