I have run clusters with different disk size nodes by using different number of
num_tokens. I used the basic math of just increasing the num_tokens by the same
percentage as change in disk size. (So, if my "normal" node was 8 tokens, one
with double the disk space would be 16.)
One thing to
Thanks for that info.
I did see in the documentation that a value of 16 was not recommended for >50
hosts. Our existing hbase is 76 regionservers so I would imagine that
(eventually) we will see a similar figure.
There will be some scenarios where an initial setup may have (eg) 2 x 8 HDD and