Is there any good documentation for multi node clustering ?

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From:
Redmumba <redmu...@gmail.com>
To:
user@cassandra.apache.org
Date:
08/01/2014 10:02 PM
Subject:
Re: adding more nodes into the cluster



The Cassandra wiki is notoriously out of date.  The Datastax documentation 
is generally more correct on most things.


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Donald Smith <
donald.sm...@audiencescience.com> wrote:
According to datastax?s documentation at 
http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/operations/ops_add_dc_to_cluster_t.html
   ?By default, this setting [auto_bootstrap] is true and not listed in 
the cassandra.yaml file.? 
 
But http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/StorageConfiguration  says:
   ?Default is: 'false', so that new clusters don't bootstrap immediately. 
You should turn this on when you start adding new nodes to a cluster that 
already has data on it.?
 
So which is correct?

Also, the two pages disagree on the instructions on how to add new nodes 
to an existing cluster.  The first page says to set auto_boostrap to ?
false? when adding a new data center to a cluster. ?Setting this parameter 
to false prevents the new nodes from attempting to get all the data from 
the other nodes in the data center. When you run nodetool rebuild in the 
last step, each node is properly mapped.?
 
The second page suggests setting auto_boostrap to ?true? when you add new 
nodes to an existing cluster: ?You should turn this on when you start 
adding new nodes to a cluster that already has data on it.?  Perhaps that 
applies only to new nodes to an existing data center (not a new data 
center to an existing cluster).
 
So, I?m not clear what I should do.   I want to add a data center to an 
existing cluster.   If I set auto_bootstrap to true in the new nodes of 
the new cluster, will it stream data from the other data centers?  Perhaps 
it will stream only NEW rows.   Perhaps the purpose of doing ?nodetool 
rebuild? is to force streaming OLD data (like a repair).  It?s not clear. 
Maybe auto_bootstrap=true is equivalent to (auto_boostrap=false plus 
?nodetool rebuild?).  
 
Thoughts?

Don
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From: Robert Coli [mailto:rc...@eventbrite.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 12:31 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: adding more nodes into the cluster
 
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> 
wrote:
It applies whenever one is bootstrapping a node. One is bootstrapping a 
node whenever one starts a node with auto_bootstrap set to "true" (the 
default) and with either one-or-more tokens in initial_token or num_tokens 
set.
 
Ugh sorry :
 
1) starting a node
2) with auto_bootstrap:true (default)
3) initial_token or num_tokens populated
4) node has never successfully bootstrapped before, and has not therefore 
written the information of its successful bootstrap to the system keyspace
 
If the node has bootstrapped before, it will not do so again unless 
replace_address is used.
 
=Rob
 
 


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