How to upgrade a ring (0.8.9 nodes) to 1.1.5 with the minimal downtime?

2012-11-05 Thread Yan Wu
Hello, I have a Cassandra ring with 4 nodes in 0.8.9 and like to upgrade all nodes to 1.1.5. It would be great that the upgrade has no downtime or minimal downtime of the ring. After I brought down one of the nodes and upgraded it to 1.1.5, when I tried to bring it up, the new 1.1.5 node

Re: How to upgrade a ring (0.8.9 nodes) to 1.1.5 with the minimal downtime?

2012-11-05 Thread Bryan Talbot
Do a rolling upgrade of the ring to 1.0.12 first and then upgrade to 1.1.x. After each rolling upgrade, you should probably do the recommend nodetool upgradesstables, etc. The datastax documentation about upgrading might be helpful for you: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/install/upgrading