Re: Moving cluster

2013-04-22 Thread Kais Ahmed
Yes Mike, this is what I meant when I spoke about the two solutions :) Thank you to all, 2013/4/21 Michael Theroux > I believe the two solutions that are being referred to is the "lift and > shift" vs. upgrading by replacing a node and letting it restore from the > cluster. > > I don't think t

Re: Moving cluster

2013-04-21 Thread Michael Theroux
I believe the two solutions that are being referred to is the "lift and shift" vs. upgrading by replacing a node and letting it restore from the cluster. I don't think there are any more "risks" per-say on the upgrading by replacing, as long as you can make sure your new node is configured prope

Re: Moving cluster

2013-04-21 Thread aaron morton
Sorry i do not understand you question. What are the two solutions ? Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 20/04/2013, at 3:43 AM, Kais Ahmed wrote: > Hello and thank you for your answers. > > The first

Re: Moving cluster

2013-04-19 Thread Kais Ahmed
Hello and thank you for your answers. The first solution is much easier for me because I use the vnode. What is the risk of the first solution thank you, 2013/4/18 aaron morton > This is roughly the lift and shift process I use. > > Note that disabling thrift and gossip does not stop an exis

Re: Moving cluster

2013-04-18 Thread aaron morton
This is roughly the lift and shift process I use. Note that disabling thrift and gossip does not stop an existing repair session. So I often drain and then shutdown, and copy the live data dir rather than a snapshot dir. Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Consultant N

Re: Moving cluster

2013-04-18 Thread Michael Theroux
This should work. Another option is to follow a process similar to what we recently did. We recently and successfully upgraded 12 instances from large to xlarge instances in AWS. I chose not to replace nodes as restoring data from the ring would have taken significant time and put the clust

Re: Moving cluster

2013-04-18 Thread Alain RODRIGUEZ
I would say add your 3 servers to the 3 tokens where you want them, let's say : { "0": { "0": 0, "1": 56713727820156410577229101238628035242, "2": 113427455640312821154458202477256070485 } } or these token -1 or +1 if you already have these token used. And then jus

Moving cluster

2013-04-18 Thread Kais Ahmed
Hi, What is the best pratice to move from a cluster of 7 nodes (m1.xlarge) to 3 nodes (hi1.4xlarge). Thanks,