> Would the rings be separate? Yes. But I would recommend you give them different cluster names. It's a good protections against nodes accidentally joining the wrong cluster.
cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 5/03/2012, at 11:06 PM, Tamar Fraenkel wrote: > Hi! > I have a Cassandra cluster with two nodes > > nodetool ring -h localhost > Address DC Rack Status State Load Owns > Token > > 85070591730234615865843651857942052864 > 10.0.0.19 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 488.74 KB 50.00% > 0 > 10.0.0.28 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 504.63 KB 50.00% > 85070591730234615865843651857942052864 > > I want to create a second ring with the same name but two different nodes. > using tokengentool I get the same tokens as they are affected from the number > of nodes in a ring. > > My question is like this: > Lets say I create two new VMs, with IPs: 10.0.0.31 and 10.0.0.11 > In 10.0.0.31 cassandra.yaml I will set > initial_token: 0 > seeds: "10.0.0.31" > listen_address: 10.0.0.31 > rpc_address: 0.0.0.0 > > In 10.0.0.11 cassandra.yaml I will set > initial_token: 85070591730234615865843651857942052864 > seeds: "10.0.0.31" > listen_address: 10.0.0.11 > rpc_address: 0.0.0.0 > > Would the rings be separate? > > Thanks, > > Tamar Fraenkel > Senior Software Engineer, TOK Media > > <tokLogo.png> > > ta...@tok-media.com > Tel: +972 2 6409736 > Mob: +972 54 8356490 > Fax: +972 2 5612956 > > > ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com