I was misunderstood this  
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/virtual-nodes-in-cassandra-1-2 , especially 
"If you want to get started with vnodes on a fresh cluster, however, that is 
fairly straightforward. Just don’t set the initial_token parameter in 
yourconf/cassandra.yaml and instead enable the num_tokens parameter. A good 
default value for this is 256"

Also I couldn't find document about set multiple tokens for 
cassandra.inital_token 

Anyway, I just tested, it does work to set  comma separated list of tokens. 

Thanks,

Zhong


On Jan 29, 2013, at 3:06 AM, aaron morton wrote:

>> After I searched some document on Datastax website and some old ticket, 
>> seems that it works for random partitioner only, and leaves order preserved 
>> partitioner out of the luck.
> Links ? 
> 
>>   or allow add Virtual Nodes manually?
> If not looked into it but there is a cassandra.inital_token startup param 
> that takes a comma separated list of tokens for the node.
> 
> There also appears to be support for the ordered partitions to generate 
> random tokens. 
> 
> But you would still have the problem of having to balance your row keys 
> around the token space. 
> 
> Cheers
>  
> -----------------
> Aaron Morton
> Freelance Cassandra Developer
> New Zealand
> 
> @aaronmorton
> http://www.thelastpickle.com
> 
> On 29/01/2013, at 10:31 AM, Zhong Li <z...@voxeo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Virtual Nodes is great feature. After I searched some document on Datastax 
>> website and some old ticket, seems that it works for random partitioner 
>> only, and leaves order preserved partitioner out of the luck. I may 
>> misunderstand, please correct me. if it doesn't love order preserved 
>> partitioner, would be possible to add support multiple initial_token(s) for  
>> order preserved partitioner  or allow add Virtual Nodes manually? 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Zhong
> 

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