Re: number of racks in a deployment with VMs

The reason for the zoho (and my) emails go to the spam box is because the Apache mailing list software is messing around with the DKIM signature and the "From:" address. I have created INFRA-21415 for this. On 15/02/2021 22:36, Kane Wilson wr

Re: number of racks in a deployment with VMs

There are operational advantages to having #racks == RF, however it's by no means mandatory. Having more racks than RF doesn't cause any availability/health/balance problems, it is only disadvantageous in that it makes some cluster maintenance tasks more expensive/unwieldy like repairs and DC migra

number of racks in a deployment with VMs

Hi, In a article by thelastpickle [1], i noticed: The key here is to configure the cluster so that for a given datacenter the number of racks is the same as the replication factor. When using virtual machines as Cassandra nodes we have to set up the cluster in a way that number of racks is