Thanks guys.
On Dec 20, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Dave Viner wrote:
> You can put a Cassandra cluster behind a load balancer. One thing to be
> cautious of is the health check. Just because the node is listening on port
> 9160 doesn't mean that it's healthy to serve requests. It is required, but
> not sufficient.
>
> The real test is the JMX values.
>
> Dave Viner
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Jonathan Colby <jonathan.co...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> I was unable to find example or documentation on my question. I'd like to
> know what the best way to group a cluster of cassandra nodes behind a virtual
> ip.
>
> For example, can cassandra nodes be placed behind a Citrix Netscaler hardware
> load balancer?
>
> I can't imagine it being a problem, but in doing so would you break any
> cassandra functionality?
>
> The goal is to have the application talk to a single virtual ip and be
> directed to a random node in the cluster.
>
> I heard a little about adding the node addresses to Hector's load-balancing
> mechanism, but this doesn't seem too robust or easy to maintain.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
