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The "Operations" page has been changed by scott white. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations?action=diff&rev1=29&rev2=30 -------------------------------------------------- 1. You should wait long enough for all the nodes in your cluster to become aware of the bootstrapping node via gossip before starting another bootstrap. For most clusters 30s will be plenty of time. 1. Relating to point 1, one can only boostrap N nodes at a time with automatic token picking, where N is the size of the existing cluster. If you need to more than double the size of your cluster, you have to wait for the first N nodes to finish until your cluster is size 2N before bootstrapping more nodes. So if your current cluster is 5 nodes and you want add 7 nodes, bootstrap 5 and let those finish before boostrapping the last two. - 1. As a safety measure, Cassandra does not automatically remove data from nodes that "lose" part of their Token Range to a newly added node. Run "nodetool cleanup" on the source node(s) when you are satisfied the new node is up and working. If you do not do this the old data will still be counted against the load on that node and future bootstrap attempts at choosing a location will be thrown off. + 1. As a safety measure, Cassandra does not automatically remove data from nodes that "lose" part of their Token Range to a newly added node. Run "nodetool cleanup" on the source node(s) (neighboring nodes that shared the same subrange) when you are satisfied the new node is up and working. If you do not do this the old data will still be counted against the load on that node and future bootstrap attempts at choosing a location will be thrown off. Cassandra is smart enough to transfer data from the nearest source node(s), if your !EndpointSnitch is configured correctly. So, the new node doesn't need to be in the same datacenter as the primary replica for the Range it is bootstrapping into, as long as another replica is in the datacenter with the new one.
