You don't need the ec2snitch necessarily. AFAIK, It's meant to be a "better" way of detecting where your ec2 instances are. But, unless you're popping instances all the time, I don't think it's worth it.
Check out the step-by-step guide on that same page. Pure EC2 api calls to setup your cluster. You can also use rackaware-ness in EC2. Just add in the PropertyFile endpoint and put your rack file in /etc/cassandra/rack.properties. Dave Viner On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Allan Carroll <alla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm setting up a new cluster on EC2 for the first time and looking at the > wiki cloud setup page (http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CloudConfig). > There's a chef recipe linked there that mentions an ec2snitch. The link > doesn't seem to go where it says it does. Does anyone know where those > resources have gone or are they no longer available? > > Thanks > -Allan