The formatting of results which contain multi-byte characters sometimes do not have correctly aligned columns. Similarly, non-standard character sets are being corrupted in results.

AdminAPI does not support Unix socket connections. MySQL Shell currently does not prevent you from attempting to use socket connections to a cluster, and attempting to use a socket connection to a cluster can cause unexpected results.

The MySQL Shell help describes an invalid URI:

USER[:PASS]@::SOCKET[/DB].

This is invalid because the @ symbol can not be present if no user information is provided.

If a session type is not specified when creating the global session, MySQL Shell provides automatic protocol detection which attempts to first create a NodeSession and if that fails it tries to create a ClassicSession. With an InnoDB cluster that consists of three server instances, where there is one read-write port and two read-only ports, this can cause MySQL Shell to only connect to one of the read-only instances. Therefore it is recommended to always specify the session type when creating the global session.

When adding non-sandbox server instances (instances which you have configured manually rather than using dba.deploySandboxInstance() ) to a cluster, MySQL Shell is not able to persist any configuration changes in the instance's configuration file. This leads to one or both of the following scenarios:

If only a happens, the instance does not rejoin the cluster after a restart.

If b also happens, and you observe that the instance did not rejoin the cluster after a restart, you cannot use the recommended dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage() in this situation to get the cluster back online. This is because the instance loses any configuration changes made by MySQL Shell, and because they were not persisted, the instance reverts to the previous state before being configured for the cluster. This causes Group Replication to stop responding, and eventually the command times out.

To avoid this problem it is strongly recommended to use dba.configureLocalInstance() before adding instances to a cluster in order to persist the configuration changes.

Using MySQL server instances configured with the validate_password plugin and password policy set to STRONG causes InnoDB cluster createCluster() and MySQL Router bootstrap operations to fail. This is because the internal user required for access to the server instance can not be validated.

The MySQL Router --bootstrap command line option does not accept IPv6 addresses.

The commercial version of MySQL Router does not have the correct setting for AppArmor. A work around is to edit the AppArmor profile configuration file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqlrouter and modify the line containing /usr/sbin/mysqld to use the path to MySQL Router, for example /usr/sbin/mysqlrouter.

Using the adoptFromGR option with the dba.createCluster() function to create a cluster based on an existing deployment of Group Replication fails with an error that the instance is already part of a replication group. This happens in MySQL Shell's default wizard mode only. A workaround is to disable wizard mode by launching mysqlsh with the --no-wizard command option.

The use of the --defaults-extra-file option to specify an option file is not supported by InnoDB cluster server instances. InnoDB cluster only supports a single option file on instances and no extra option files are supported. Therefore for any operation working with the instance's option file the main one should be specified. If you want to use multiple option files you have to configure the files manually and make sure they are updated correctly considering the precedence rules of the use of multiple option files and ensuring that the desired settings are not incorrectly overwritten by options in an extra unrecognized option file.