Hello Prem, I'm trying to find out whether people are autoscaling up and down automatically, not manually. I'm also interested in whether they are using a cloud based solution and creating and destroying instances.
I've found the following regarding GCE https://cloud.google.com/developers/articles/auto-scaling-on-the-google-cloud-platformand how instances can be created and destroyed. I Thanks Jabbar Azam On 21 May 2014 13:09, Prem Yadav <ipremya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jabbar, > with vnodes, scaling up should not be a problem. You could just add a > machines with the cluster/seed/datacenter conf and it should join the > cluster. > Scaling down has to be manual where you drain the node and decommission it. > > thanks, > Prem > > > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Jabbar Azam <aja...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Has anybody got a cassandra cluster which autoscales depending on load or >> times of the day? >> >> I've seen the documentation on the datastax website and that only >> mentioned adding and removing nodes, unless I've missed something. >> >> I want to know how to do this for the google compute engine. This isn't >> for a production system but a test system(multiple nodes) where I want to >> learn. I'm not sure how to check the performance of the cluster, whether I >> use one performance metric or a mix of performance metrics and then invoke >> a script to add or remove nodes from the cluster. >> >> I'd be interested to know whether people out there are autoscaling >> cassandra on demand. >> >> Thanks >> >> Jabbar Azam >> > >
