Thanks everybody for the suggestions. We are using vnodes, 1 datacenter. So
far it was all in 1 rack.
The reason for this is that we are breaking each 46 processor physical
machine to 4 docker containers with cassandra in them. Each C* will have a
separate ssd disk. Via doing this we want to a
Right, and I also meant to refer to the anti-pattern doc related to racks:
http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/architecture/architecturePlanningAntiPatterns_c.html
Although that doc seems to discourage rack selection entirely when in fact
people should try to have replicas placed i
Changing the rack of a live node is discouraged, since the ring ranges the
node is responsible for will change, meaning the node will not own part of
the data for its new ranges and other nodes may not have some of its
current data.
It will be a forbidden operation in the upcoming versions of Cas
What RF are you using? How many data centers? What rack configuration are
you currently using/ Are you in fact using a rack-aware network topology
partitioner?
Specifically, what are you attempting to accomplish - why change the rack
at all? Not that changing the rack is necessarily bad, just to c
So I have a 8 node cluster and I would like to change the rack of one node.
How should I do that?
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