I recommend you do not add 1.2 nodes to a 1.1 cluster. We tried this, and ran into many issues. Specifically, the data will not correctly stream from the 1.1 nodes to the 1.2, and it will never bootstrap correctly.
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Morgan Segalis <msega...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Arthur, > > Thank you for your answer. > I have read the section "Adding Capacity to an Existing Cluster" prior to > posting my question. > > Actually I was thinking I would like Cassandra choose by itself the token. > > Since I want only some column family to be an ALL cluster, and other > column family to be where they are, no matter balancing… > > I do not find anything on the configuration that I should make on the very > first (and only node so far) to start the replication. (The configuration > of my Node A is pretty basic, almost out of the box, I might changed the > name) > How to make this node know that it will be a Seed. > > My current Node A is using Cassandra 1.1.0 > > Is it compatible if I install a new node with Cassandra 1.2.8 ? or should > I fetch 1.1.0 for Node B ? > > Thank you. > > Morgan. > > > Le 1 août 2013 à 20:32, "Arthur Zubarev" <arthur.zuba...@aol.com> a écrit > : > > > Hi Morgan, > > > > The scaling out depends on several factors. The most intricate is > perhaps calculating the tokens. > > > > Also the Cassandra version is important. > > > > At this point in time I suggest you read section Adding Capacity to an > Existing Cluster at > http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/operations/cluster_management > > and come back here with questions and more details. > > > > Regards, > > > > Arthur > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Morgan Segalis > > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 11:24 AM > > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > > Subject: Adding my first node to another one... > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm trying to wrap my head around Cassandra great ability to expand… > > > > I have set up my first Cassandra node a while ago… it was working great, > and data wasn't so important back then. > > Since I had a great experience with Cassandra I decided to migrate step > by step my MySQL data to Cassandra. > > > > Now data start to be important, so I would like to create another node, > and add it. > > Since I had some issue with my DataCenter, I wanted to have a copy (of > sensible data only) on another DataCenter. > > > > Quite frankly I'm still a newbie on Cassandra and need your guys help. > > > > First things first… > > Already up and Running Cassandra (Called A): > > - Do I need to change anything to the cassandra.yaml to make sure that > another node can connect ? if yes, should I restart the node (because I > would have to warn users about downtime) ? > > - Since this node should be a seed, the seed list is already set to > localhost, is that good enough ? > > > > The new node I want to add (Called B): > > - I know that before starting this node, I should modify the seed list > in cassandra.yaml… Is that the only thing I need to do ? > > > > It is my first time doing this, so please be gentle ;-) > > > > Thank you all, > > > > Morgan. > > -- Jon Haddad http://www.rustyrazorblade.com skype: rustyrazorblade
