Re: Cassandra cluster migration in Amazon EC2

2013-09-03 Thread Robert Coli
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Renat Gilfanov wrote: > - Group 3 of storages into raid0 array, move data directory to the raid0, > and commit log - to the 4th left storage. > - As far as I understand, separation of commit log and data directory > should make performance better - but what about

Re[2]: Cassandra cluster migration in Amazon EC2

2013-09-02 Thread Renat Gilfanov
Thanks for the quick reply! If  I launch the new Cassandra node, should I preliminary add it's IP to the cassandra-topology.properties and "seeds" parameter in the cassandra.yaml on all existing nodes and restart them? >If you launch the new servers, have them join the cluster, then decommissi

Re: Cassandra cluster migration in Amazon EC2

2013-09-02 Thread Jon Haddad
If you launch the new servers, have them join the cluster, then decommission the old ones, you'll be able to do it without downtime. It'll also have the effect of randomizing the tokens, I believe. On Sep 2, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Renat Gilfanov wrote: > Hello, > > Currently we have a Cassandra

Cassandra cluster migration in Amazon EC2

2013-09-02 Thread Renat Gilfanov
Hello, Currently we have a Cassandra cluster in the Amazon EC2, and we are planning to upgrade our deployment configuration to achieve better performance and stability. However, a lot of open questions arise when planning this migration. I'll be very thankfull if somebody could answer my ques