Yes, if you have only 1 machine in a rack then your cluster will be imbalanced. You're going to be able to dream up all sorts of weird failure cases when you choose a scenario like RF=2 & totally imbalanced network arch.
Vnodes attempt to solve the problem of imbalanced rings by choosing so many tokens that it's improbable that the ring will be imbalanced. On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:57 AM, DE VITO Dominique <dominique.dev...@thalesgroup.com> wrote: > First, thanks for your answer. > >> This is incorrect. Network Topology w/ Vnodes will be fine, assuming you've >> got RF= # of racks. > > IMHO, it's not a good enough condition. > Let's use an example with RF=2 > > N1/rack_1 N2/rack_1 N3/rack_1 N4/rack_2 > > Here, you have RF= # of racks > And due to NetworkTopologyStrategy, N4 will store *all* the cluster data, > leading to a completely imbalanced cluster. > > IMHO, it happens when using nodes *or* vnodes. > > As well-balanced clusters with NetworkTopologyStrategy rely on carefully > chosen token distribution/path along the ring *and* as tokens are > randomly-generated with vnodes, my guess is that with vnodes and > NetworkTopologyStrategy, it's better to define a single (logical) rack // due > to "carefully chosen tokens" vs "randomly-generated token" clash. > > I don't see other options left. > Do you see other ones ? > > Regards, > Dominique > > > > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : jonathan.had...@gmail.com [mailto:jonathan.had...@gmail.com] De la part > de Jonathan Haddad > Envoyé : mardi 5 août 2014 17:43 > À : user@cassandra.apache.org > Objet : Re: vnode and NetworkTopologyStrategy: not playing well together ? > > This is incorrect. Network Topology w/ Vnodes will be fine, assuming you've > got RF= # of racks. For each token, replicas are chosen based on the > strategy. Essentially, you could have a wild imbalance in token ownership, > but it wouldn't matter because the replicas would be distributed across the > rest of the machines. > > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/architecture/architectureDataDistributeReplication_c.html > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:19 AM, DE VITO Dominique > <dominique.dev...@thalesgroup.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> My understanding is that NetworkTopologyStrategy does NOT play well >> with vnodes, due to: >> >> · Vnode => tokens are (usually) randomly generated (AFAIK) >> >> · NetworkTopologyStrategy => required carefully choosen tokens for >> all nodes in order to not to get a VERY unbalanced ring like in >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3810 >> >> >> >> When playing with vnodes, is the recommendation to define one rack for >> the entire cluster ? >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Dominique >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Jon Haddad > http://www.rustyrazorblade.com > skype: rustyrazorblade -- Jon Haddad http://www.rustyrazorblade.com skype: rustyrazorblade
