On Jan 12, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > What's the best way to install C*? Any good links?
http://www.slideshare.net/mattdennis/cassandra-on-ec2 has some interesting points that aren't immediately obvious - it's mdennis in the cassandra irc channel if you had any questions about the slides. One thing that bit us using the property file snitch was that striping across availability zones as racks - you need to round robin AZs (or racks) in token order or you wind up with data hotspots because of how the network topology strategy works when choosing the location of replicas. > Is it better to just create instances and install rpms on it first, > just like regular cluster and then create image from it? I am assuming > it's possible. > Are there any known issues when running C* on EC2? > How do other C* users deal with instance failures when using local > storage on EC2 since local storage is gone at that point? Launch new > instance and run repair?
