Okay - I just really wanted to point out Matt's presentation as food for thought. We've had some painful experiences we've learned a lot from and wished we had some of those tips when we were starting out.
On Sep 3, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Ben Ashton wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > I dont remember setting up snitch. > > The servers are all in a VPC, the only thing I did was configure the seed IP > so all the nodes can see each other. > > Ben > > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > I would look at http://www.slideshare.net/mattdennis/cassandra-on-ec2 > > Also, people generally do raid0 on the ephemerals. > > EBS is a bad fit for cassandra - see the presentation above. However, that > means you'll need to have a backup strategy, which is also mentioned in the > presentation. > > Also are you using the ec2snitch or the property file snitch? > > On Sep 3, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Ben Ashton wrote: > > > I've been dropped in it a little and had to build a prod setup going live > > on monday. > > > > At the moment I have setup three server in EC2 US, one each AZ > > > > the servers are setup as follows:- > > > > m1.xlarge using the Amazons AMI instance storage image, the ephemerals 4 x > > 420 GB setup in raid10 and formatted with xfs mounted as /cassandra with > > all the cassandra data in /cassandra > > > > I've got the ring setup with 33% on each server. > > > > I imagine I'd need to setup some EBS cassandra servers and insert them in > > the ring, so I have a persistence, would m.large be OK for this? > > > > I've been reading http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ and > > http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/index but can anyone recommend a book I > > can buy this weekend or another web source for best practice? > > > > What are the best ways to stress test? stress.java? > >
