Re: Datastax Enterprise mixed workload cluster configuration

2012-03-16 Thread Alexandru Sicoe
Hi, Since this thread already contains the system setup, I just want to ask another question: If you have 3 data centers (DC1,DC2 and DC3) and you have a keyspace where the strategy options are such that each DC gets one replica. If you only write to the nodes in one DC1 what is the path the repl

Re: Datastax Enterprise mixed workload cluster configuration

2012-03-15 Thread Alexandru Sicoe
Sorry for that last message, I was confused because I thought I needed to use the DseSimpleSnitch but of course I can use the PropertyFileSnitch and that allows me to get the configuration with 3 data centers explained. Cheers, Alex On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Alexandru Sicoe wrote: > Tha

Re: Datastax Enterprise mixed workload cluster configuration

2012-03-15 Thread Alexandru Sicoe
Thanks Tyler, I see that cassandra.yaml has "endpoint_snitch: com.datastax.bdp.snitch.DseSimpleSnitch". Will this pick up the configuration from the cassandra-topology.properties file as does the PropertyFileSnitch ? Or is there some other way of telling it which nodes are in withc DC? Cheers, Al

Re: Datastax Enterprise mixed workload cluster configuration

2012-03-14 Thread Tyler Hobbs
Yes, you can do this. You will want to have three DCs: DC1 with [1, 2, 3], DC2 with [4, 5, 6], and DC3 with [7, 8, 9]. For your normal data keyspace, the replication strategy should be NTS, and the strategy_options should have some replicas in each of the three DCs. For example: {DC1: 3, DC2: 3,

Datastax Enterprise mixed workload cluster configuration

2012-03-14 Thread Alexandru Sicoe
Hi everyone, I want to test out the Datastax Enterprise software to have a mixed workload setup with an analytics and a real time part. However I am not sure how to configure it to achieve what I want: I will have 3 real machines on one side of a gateway (1,2,3) and 6 VMs on another(4,5,6). 1,2