Re: need help setting up production environment

2011-09-03 Thread Jeremy Hanna
Okay - I just really wanted to point out Matt's presentation as food for thought. We've had some painful experiences we've learned a lot from and wished we had some of those tips when we were starting out. On Sep 3, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Ben Ashton wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > I dont remember setting

Re: need help setting up production environment

2011-09-03 Thread Ben Ashton
Hi Jeremy, I dont remember setting up snitch. The servers are all in a VPC, the only thing I did was configure the seed IP so all the nodes can see each other. Ben On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Jeremy Hanna wrote: > I would look at http://www.slideshare.net/mattdennis/cassandra-on-ec2 > > A

Re: need help setting up production environment

2011-09-03 Thread Jeremy Hanna
I would look at http://www.slideshare.net/mattdennis/cassandra-on-ec2 Also, people generally do raid0 on the ephemerals. EBS is a bad fit for cassandra - see the presentation above. However, that means you'll need to have a backup strategy, which is also mentioned in the presentation. Also ar

need help setting up production environment

2011-09-03 Thread Ben Ashton
I've been dropped in it a little and had to build a prod setup going live on monday. At the moment I have setup three server in EC2 US, one each AZ the servers are setup as follows:- m1.xlarge using the Amazons AMI instance storage image, the ephemerals 4 x 420 GB setup in raid10 and formatted w