You need to introduce the new "vnode enabled" nodes in a new DC.  Or you will 
have similar issues to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5525

Add vnode DC:
http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/1.2/webhelp/index.html#cassandra/operations/ops_add_dc_to_cluster_t.html

Point clients to new DC

Remove non vnode DC:
http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/1.2/webhelp/index.html#cassandra/operations/ops_decomission_dc_t.html

-Jeremiah

On Aug 30, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Alain RODRIGUEZ <arodr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> +1.
> 
> I am still afraid of this step. Yet you can avoid it by introducing new 
> nodes, with vnodes enabled, and then remove old ones. This should work.
> 
> My problem is that I am not really confident in vnodes either...
> 
> Any share, on this transition, and then of the use of vnodes would be great 
> indeed.
> 
> Alain
> 
> 
> 2013/8/29 Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com>
> Hi!
> 
> I've been wondering... is there anyone in the cassandra-user audience who has 
> used "shuffle" feature successfully on a non-toy-or-testing cluster? If so, 
> could you describe the experience you had and any problems you encountered?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> =Rob
> 

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