Thanks! But I prefer to learn how to Install first - if you have any good references (I didn't find any, even general installation for a EC2/regular machine) I'm also going to try and install Solandra, I hope that Whirr will support it in the near future.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:43 PM, John Conwell <j...@iamjohn.me> wrote: > One thing you might want to look at is the Apache Whirr project (which is > awesome by the way!). It automagically handles spinning up a cluster of > resources on EC2 (or rackspace for that matter), installing and configuring > cassandra, and starting it. > > One thing to be aware of if you go this route. By default in the yaml file > all data is written under the /var folder. But on a server started by > Whirr, this folder only has something like 4gb. Most of the hard disk > space is under the /mnt folder. So you'll either need to change what > folders are pointed to what drives (not sure if you can or not...I'm sure > you could), or change the yaml file to point the /mnt folder. > > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Eldad Yamin <elda...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> Is there any manual or important notes I should know before I try to >> install Cassandra on EC2? >> >> Thanks! >> > > > > -- > > Thanks, > John C > >
