Re: Running Cassandra on mixed OS

2015-03-02 Thread Robert Coli
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 6:43 AM, wrote: > Have any of you run a single Cassandra cluster on a mix of OS (Red Hat 5 > and 6, for example), but with the same JVM? Any issues or concerns? If > there are problems, how do you handle OS upgrades? > If you are running the same version of Cassandra in b

RE: Running Cassandra on mixed OS

2015-03-02 Thread SEAN_R_DURITY
This is not for the long haul, but in order to accomplish an OS upgrade across the cluster, without taking an outage. Sean Durity From: Jonathan Haddad [mailto:j...@jonhaddad.com] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 1:15 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Running Cassandra on mixed OS I

Re: Running Cassandra on mixed OS

2015-03-02 Thread Jonathan Haddad
I would really not recommend this. There's enough issues that can come up with a distributed database that can make it hard to pinpoint problems. In an ideal world, every machine would be completely identical. Don't set yourself up for fail. Pin the OS & all packages to specific versions. On M