Re: Configuring all nodes as seeds

2014-06-18 Thread Ken Hancock
Amen. I believe the whole seed node/bootstrapping confusion goes against the "Why Cassandra", quoted from http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/datastax-enterprise/apache-cassandra *Operational simplicity* – with all nodes in a cluster being the same, there is no complex configu

Re: Configuring all nodes as seeds

2014-06-18 Thread Robert Coli
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Jonathan Lacefield wrote: > What Artur is alluding to is that seed nodes do not bootstrap. > Replacing seed nodes requires a slightly different approach for node > replacement compared to non seed nodes. See here for more details: > http://www.datastax.com/doc

Re: Configuring all nodes as seeds

2014-06-18 Thread Jonathan Lacefield
Hello, What Artur is alluding to is that seed nodes do not bootstrap. Replacing seed nodes requires a slightly different approach for node replacement compared to non seed nodes. See here for more details: http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/operations/ops_replace_see

Re: Configuring all nodes as seeds

2014-06-18 Thread Artur Kronenberg
Hi, pretty sure we started out like that and had not seen any problems doing that. On a side node, that config may become inconsistent anyway after adding new nodes, because I think you'll need a restart of all your nodes if you add new seeds to the yaml file. (Though that's just assumption)

Configuring all nodes as seeds

2014-06-18 Thread Peer, Oded
My intended Cassandra cluster will have 15 nodes per DC, with 2 DCs. I am considering using all the nodes as seed nodes. It looks like having all the nodes as seeds should actually reduce the Gossip overhead (See "Gossiper implementation" in http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureGossip) Is