On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:56 AM, rash aroskar <rashmi.aros...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I am planning my new cassandra 1.2.5 cluster with all nodes in single > region but divided among 2 availablity zones equally. I want to make sure > with replication factor 2 I get 1 copy in every availability zone. As per > my knowledge using placement strategy EC2Snitch should take care of this. > Is this correct? Do I need to specify any strategy options? > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3810 Has background on how one must configure all rack aware snitches. If you may ever have a Cassandra "DC" outside of EC2, for example for Disaster Recovery, use GossipingPropertyFileSnitch. Also, deploy on 1.2.9, not 1.2.5. =Rob
