Re: Experience with multihoming cassandra?

2014-09-30 Thread Ben Bromhead
I'm guessing your talking about multi-homing because you want to have multiple tenants (different apps/ teams etc) to make better use of resources ? As Jared mentioned running multiple Cassandra processes on the same hardware that participate in the same cluster doesn't make much sense from a

Experience with multihoming cassandra?

2014-09-25 Thread Donald Smith
We have large boxes with 256G of RAM and SSDs. From iostat, top, and sar we think the system has excess capacity. Anyone have recommendations about multihominghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multihoming cassandra on such a node (connecting it to multiple IPs and running multiple cassandras

Re: Experience with multihoming cassandra?

2014-09-25 Thread Jared Biel
Doing this seems counter-productive to Cassandra's design/use-cases. It's best at home running on a large number of smaller servers rather than a small number of large servers. Also, as you said, you won't get any of the high availability benefits that it offers if you run multiple copies of