Re: ebs or ephemeral

2011-10-10 Thread Yi Yang
: ebs or ephemeral just catching the tail end of this discussion. aaron, in your previous email, you said "And an explanation of why we normally avoid ephemeral. " shouldn't this be, avoiding EBS? EBS was a nightmare for us in terms of performance. On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:23 A

Re: ebs or ephemeral

2011-10-10 Thread aaron morton
yes, should have been And an explanation of why we normally avoid *EBS*. My bad. - Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 10/10/2011, at 9:03 PM, Sasha Dolgy wrote: > just catching the tail end of this discussion. aaron, in yo

Re: ebs or ephemeral

2011-10-10 Thread Sasha Dolgy
just catching the tail end of this discussion. aaron, in your previous email, you said "And an explanation of why we normally avoid ephemeral. " shouldn't this be, avoiding EBS? EBS was a nightmare for us in terms of performance. On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:23 AM, aaron morton wrote: > 6 nod

Re: ebs or ephemeral

2011-10-10 Thread aaron morton
6 nodes and RF3 will mean you can handle between 1 and 2 failed nodes. see http://thelastpickle.com/2011/06/13/Down-For-Me/ Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 7/10/2011, at 9:37 PM, Madalina Matei wrote: > Hi Aaron,

Re: ebs or ephemeral

2011-10-07 Thread Madalina Matei
Hi Aaron, For a 6 nodes cluster, what RF can we use in order to support 2 failed nodes? >From the article that you sent i understood "avoid EMS" and use ephemeral. am i missing anything? Thank you so much for your help, Madaina On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:15 AM, aaron morton wrote: > Data Stax have

Re: ebs or ephemeral

2011-10-07 Thread aaron morton
Data Stax have pre build AMI's here http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/setting-up-a-cassandra-cluster-with-the-datastax-ami And an explanation of why we normally avoid ephemeral. Also, I would go with 6 nodes. You will then be able to handle up to 2 failed nodes. Hope that helps. -

Re: ebs or ephemeral

2011-10-07 Thread Yi Yang
Obviously ephemeral. It has higher IO availability, will not affect your Ethernet IO performance, and it is free (included in instance price) and the redundancy is provided by cassandra itself. 從我的 BlackBerry® 無線裝置 -Original Message- From: Madalina Matei Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:02:06