Re: Migration question

2011-06-16 Thread aaron morton
Lots of folk use a single disk or raid-1 for the system and commit log and raid-0 for the data volumes http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraHardware Your money is probably better spent on more nodes with more disks and more memory. More nodes is always better. Happy to hear reasons

Re: Migration question

2011-06-14 Thread Eric Czech
Thanks Aaron. I'll make sure to copy the system tables. Another thing -- do you have any suggestions on raid configurations for main data drives? We're looking at RAID5 and 10 and I can't seem to find a convincing argument one way or the other. Thanks again for your help. On Mon, Jun 6, 2011

Re: Migration question

2011-06-14 Thread Marcos Ortiz
El 6/14/2011 1:43 PM, Eric Czech escribió: Thanks Aaron. I'll make sure to copy the system tables. Another thing -- do you have any suggestions on raid configurations for main data drives? We're looking at RAID5 and 10 and I can't seem to find a convincing argument one way or the other.

Migration question

2011-06-06 Thread Eric Czech
Hi, I have a quick question about migrating a cluster. We have a cassandra cluster with 10 nodes that we'd like to move to a new DC and what I was hoping to do is just copy the SSTables for each node to a corresponding node in the new DC (the new cluster will also have 10 nodes). Is there any

Re: Migration question

2011-06-06 Thread aaron morton
Sounds like you are OK to turn off the existing cluster first. Assuming so, deliver any hints using JMX then do a nodetool flush to write out all the memtables and checkpoint the commit logs. You can then copy the data directories. The System data directory contains the nodes token and the