Re: Change the rack of a server

2015-11-28 Thread Badrjan
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

Re: Change the rack of a server

2015-11-26 Thread Jack Krupansky
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

Re: Change the rack of a server

2015-11-26 Thread Paulo Motta
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

Re: Change the rack of a server

2015-11-26 Thread Jack Krupansky
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

Change the rack of a server

2015-11-26 Thread Badrjan
So I have a 8 node cluster and I would like to change the rack of one node. How should I do that?  B.