Can you include this info... - output from nodetool ring for all nodes so we can see whats in the ring - what you've run on the node you are trying to bring in - the nodetool command you are trying to run - error logs
In general asking the cluster to replicate data more times than the number of nodes it has is a bad thing. How did you create the keyspace ? Aaron On 11 Mar 2011, at 03:45, Patrik Modesto wrote: > Hi, > > I'm stil fighting the > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: > replication factor (3) exceeds number of endpoints (2). > > When I have a 2-server cluster, create Keyspace with RF 3, I'm able to > add (without auto_bootstrap) another node but cluster nodetool > commands don't work and fail with the exception above. The new node > serve data but I can't do loadbalance, decommission or move on the > cluster. > > Patrik