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 >