Hi Eldad, Check out http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CloudConfig There are a few ways listed there including a step-by-step guide.
Dave Viner On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Eldad Yamin <elda...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> >
