Be advised that PHP >= 7 isn't supported yet.
I had to downgrade PHP back to 5.6.
PHP 5.3.6 or newer. Some advanced functionality requires PHP 5.4.0 or newer.
The mysqlnd_ms replication and load balancing plugin supports all PHP applications and all available PHP MySQL extensions (mysqli, mysql, PDO_MYSQL). The PHP MySQL extension must be configured to use mysqlnd in order to be able to use the mysqlnd_ms plugin for mysqlnd.
Be advised that PHP >= 7 isn't supported yet.
I had to downgrade PHP back to 5.6.
There is now a PHP 7.* port of this extension with new cool functionalities, You can find it here https://github.com/sergiotabanelli/mysqlnd_ms