General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes offer cost-effective storage that is ideal for a broad range of workloads. These volumes deliver single-digit millisecond latencies and the ability to burst to 3,000 IOPS for extended periods of time. Between a minimum of 100 IOPS (at 33.33 GiB and below) and a maximum of 10,000 IOPS (at 3,334 GiB and above), baseline performance scales linearly at 3 IOPS per GiB of volume size. AWS designs gp2 volumes to deliver the provisioned performance 99% of the time. A gp2 volume can range in size from 1 GiB to 16 TiB.
After publishing our material, Amazon engineers pointed that we should try GP2 volumes with the size allocated to provide 10000 IOPS. If we allocated volumes with size 3.3 TiB or more, we should achieve 10000 IOPS.
With these three main optimizations, and some small tweaks, we have tuned Percona XtraDB Cluster to scale better and made it fast enough for the growing demands of your applications. All of this is available with the recently released Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.17-29.20. Give it a try and watch your application scale in a multi-master environment, making Percona XtraDB Cluster the best fit for your HA workloads.
是個新功能，很簡單的可以看到目前進度，也可以拿來當作 health check 的一部分，避免開機剛起來時開始提供服務：
mysql> show status like 'wsrep_ist_receive_status';
+--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| wsrep_ist_receive_status | 3% complete, received seqno 1421771 of 1415410-1589676 |
+--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
....
mysql> show status like 'wsrep_ist_receive_status';
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| wsrep_ist_receive_status | 52% complete, received seqno 1506799 of 1415410-1589676 |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
....
mysql> show status like 'wsrep_ist_receive_status';
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| wsrep_ist_receive_status | 97% complete, received seqno 1585923 of 1415410-1589676 |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> show status like 'wsrep_ist_receive_status';
+--------------------------+-------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+-------+
| wsrep_ist_receive_status | |
+--------------------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
The DONOR node caches missing write-sets in Galera cache, but on restart this cache is wiped clean and restarted fresh. So the DONOR node doesn’t have a Galera cache to donate missing write-sets.
將 gcache.recover 這個參數打開後就會啟用記錄，另外也可以挑著開就好：
The user can set this option for all nodes, or selective nodes, based on disk usage.
另外最重要的是，之後的版本才會有，所以得繼續等...：
And yes, Percona XtraDB Cluster inherits this feature in its upcoming release.
