Re: Replacing a broker in a cluster

2014-03-20 Thread Reshef Mann
Thanks Guozhang and Neha for your answers. I will try Neha's approach as I want to replace the brokers. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: > Reshef, > > If you would like to just replace one broker at a time, then you can > shutdown the broker and start up the broker on the n

Re: Replacing a broker in a cluster

2014-03-20 Thread Neha Narkhede
Reshef, If you would like to just replace one broker at a time, then you can shutdown the broker and start up the broker on the new box with the *same* broker.id. By doing this, the broker will automatically sync data for all the partitions it hosts. You can wait for the under replicated partition

Re: Replacing a broker in a cluster

2014-03-20 Thread Guozhang Wang
Hello Reshef, Have you checked this page? http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#basic_ops_cluster_expansion Guozhang On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Reshef Mann wrote: > Hi, > > I hope someone can point me to the right place. > > I'm running a Kafka (0.8) cluster of 3 machines and woul

Replacing a broker in a cluster

2014-03-20 Thread Reshef Mann
Hi, I hope someone can point me to the right place. I'm running a Kafka (0.8) cluster of 3 machines and would like to upgrade to bigger machines with bigger disks by replacing the servers one by one. What are steps for performing it without compromising the stability of the system? Thanks, Reshe