Re: Partition Balancing

2013-09-19 Thread Joel Koshy
Hi Tom, that's right - see http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#datacenters Thanks, Joel On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Tom Amon wrote: > This means it's not recommended to spread a cluster of brokers over more > than one data center? Are there specific timing or performance issues > re

Re: Partition Balancing

2013-09-17 Thread Tom Amon
This means it's not recommended to spread a cluster of brokers over more than one data center? Are there specific timing or performance issues related to this? > Intra-cluster replication support is not recommended for an inter-DC set up. You can instead set up a mirror of a cluster in another DC

Re: Partition Balancing

2013-09-17 Thread Joel Koshy
Intra-cluster replication support is not recommended for an inter-DC set up. You can instead set up a mirror of a cluster in another DC. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+mirroring+%28MirrorMaker%29 Thanks, Joel On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Tom Amon wrote: > Is it poss

Partition Balancing

2013-09-16 Thread Tom Amon
Is it possible to specify data center information to Kafka such that all replicas for a given partition are not in the same data center? We have a cluster that spans 2 data centers and I'd like to ensure that we're covered if we lose one of them.