RE: Datacenter decommissioning on Cassandra 4.1.4

2024-04-08 Thread Michalis Kotsiouros (EXT) via user
Hello Jon and Jeff, Thanks a lot for your replies. I completely get your points. Some more clarification about my issue. When trying to update the Replication before the decommission, I get the following error message when I remove the replication for system_auth kesypace. ConfigurationException:

Re: Datacenter decommissioning on Cassandra 4.1.4

2024-04-08 Thread Jeff Jirsa
To Jon’s point, if you remove from replication after step 1 or step 2 (probably step 2 if your goal is to be strictly correct), the nodetool decommission phase becomes almost a no-op. If you use the order below, the last nodes to decommission will cause those surviving machines to run out of

Re: Datacenter decommissioning on Cassandra 4.1.4

2024-04-08 Thread Jon Haddad
You shouldn’t decom an entire DC before removing it from replication. — Jon Haddad Rustyrazorblade Consulting rustyrazorblade.com On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 6:26 AM Michalis Kotsiouros (EXT) via user < user@cassandra.apache.org> wrote: > Hello community, > > In our deployments, we usually rebuild

Datacenter decommissioning on Cassandra 4.1.4

2024-04-08 Thread Michalis Kotsiouros (EXT) via user
Hello community, In our deployments, we usually rebuild the Cassandra datacenters for maintenance or recovery operations. The procedure used since the days of Cassandra 3.x was the one documented in datastax documentation. Decommissioning a datacenter | Apache Cassandra 3.x