I need to offer my profound thanks to this community which has been so helpful in trying to figure this system out.
I've setup a simple ring with two nodes and I'm trying to insert data to them. I get failures 100% with this error: me.prettyprint.hector.api.exceptions.HUnavailableException: : May not be enough replicas present to handle consistency level. I'm not doing anything fancy - this is just from setting up the cluster following the basic instructions from datastax for a simple one data center cluster. My config is basically the default except for the changes they discuss (except that I have configured for my IP addresses... my two boxes are .126 and .127) cluster_name: 'MyDemoCluster' num_tokens: 256 seed_provider: - class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider parameters: - seeds: "10.28.205.126" listen_address: 10.28.205.126 rpc_address: 0.0.0.0 endpoint_snitch: RackInferringSnitch Nodetool shows both nodes active in the ring, status = up, state = normal. For the CF: ColumnFamily: SystemEvent Key Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type Default column value validator: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type Columns sorted by: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type GC grace seconds: 864000 Compaction min/max thresholds: 4/32 Read repair chance: 0.1 DC Local Read repair chance: 0.0 Replicate on write: true Caching: KEYS_ONLY Bloom Filter FP chance: default Built indexes: [SystemEvent.IdxName] Column Metadata: Column Name: eventTimeStamp Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.DateType Column Name: name Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type Index Name: IdxName Index Type: KEYS Compaction Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy Compression Options: sstable_compression: org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.SnappyCompressor Any ideas?