Hello and thank you for your answers.

The first solution is much easier for me because I use the vnode.

What is the risk of the first solution

thank you,


2013/4/18 aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>

> This is roughly the lift and shift process I use.
>
> Note that disabling thrift and gossip does not stop an existing repair
> session. So I often drain and then shutdown, and copy the live data dir
> rather than a snapshot dir.
>
> Cheers
>
> -----------------
> Aaron Morton
> Freelance Cassandra Consultant
> New Zealand
>
> @aaronmorton
> http://www.thelastpickle.com
>
> On 19/04/2013, at 4:10 AM, Michael Theroux <mthero...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> This should work.
>
> Another option is to follow a process similar to what we recently did.  We
> recently and successfully upgraded 12 instances from large to xlarge
> instances in AWS.  I chose not to replace nodes as restoring data from the
> ring would have taken significant time and put the cluster under some
> additional load.  I also wanted to eliminate the possibility that any
> issues on the new nodes could be blamed on new configuration/operating
> system differences.  Instead we followed the following procedure (removing
> some details that would likely be unique to our infrastructure).
>
> For a node being upgraded:
>
> 1) nodetool disable thrift
> 2) nodetool disable gossip
> 3) Snapshot the data (nodetool snapshot ...)
> 4) Backup the snapshot data to EBS (assuming you are on ephemeral)
> 5) Stop cassandra
> 6) Move the cassandra.yaml configuration file to cassandra.yaml.bak (to
> prevent any future restarts to cause cassandra to restart)
> 7) Shutdown the instance
> 8) Take an AMI of the instance
> 9) Start a new instance from the AMI with the desired hardware
> 10) If you assign the new instance a new IP Address, make sure any entries
> in /etc/hosts, or the broadcast_address in cassandra.yaml is updated
> 11) Attach the volume you backed up your snapshot data to to the new
> instance and mount it
> 12) Restore the snapshot data
> 13) Restore cassandra.yaml file
> 13) Restart cassandra
>
> - I recommend practicing this on a test cluster first
> - As you replace nodes with new IP Addresses, eventually all your seeds
> will need be updated.  This is not a big deal until all your seed nodes
> have been replaced.
> - Don't forget about NTP!  Make sure it is running on all your new nodes.
>  Myself, to be extra careful, I actually deleted the ntp drift file and let
> NTP recalculate it because its a new instance, and it took over an hour to
> restore our snapshot data... but that may have been overkill.
> - If you have the opportunity, depending on your situation, increase
> the max_hint_window_in_ms
> - Your details may vary
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike
>
> On Apr 18, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Alain RODRIGUEZ wrote:
>
> I would say add your 3 servers to the 3 tokens where you want them, let's
> say :
>
> {
>     "0": {
>         "0": 0,
>         "1": 56713727820156410577229101238628035242,
>         "2": 113427455640312821154458202477256070485
>     }
> }
>
> or these token -1 or +1 if you already have these token used. And then
> just decommission x1Large nodes. You should be good to go.
>
>
>
> 2013/4/18 Kais Ahmed <k...@neteck-fr.com>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is the best pratice to move from a cluster of 7 nodes (m1.xlarge) to
>> 3 nodes (hi1.4xlarge).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>
>
>
>

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