Thank you all! That answers my question. Any other advice for adding nodes?
--Jeremy On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Agarwal, Saurabh <[email protected] > wrote: > That is what my experience is. When we add nodes, the regions get > rebalanced across the old and new nodes...... > > -----Original Message----- > From: jeremy p [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: What happens when you add new HBase nodes to a cluster? > > Hey all, > > We're wanting to add 10 additional nodes to our 20-node HBase cluster. > Our tables are pre-split into 800 regions, 40 regions to a machine. What > will happen when we add 10 new nodes to the cluster? Will the HBase load > balancer automatically re-distribute these regions to the new nodes? If > so, will we have 26 regions on some machines and 27 on others? > > Thanks! > > --Jeremy >
