Doing this seems counter-productive to Cassandra's design/use-cases. It's best at home running on a large number of smaller servers rather than a small number of large servers. Also, as you said, you won't get any of the high availability benefits that it offers if you run multiple copies of Cassandra on the same box.
On 25 September 2014 16:58, Donald Smith <donald.sm...@audiencescience.com> wrote: > We have large boxes with 256G of RAM and SSDs. From iostat, top, > and sar we think the system has excess capacity. Anyone have > recommendations about multihoming > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multihoming> cassandra on such a node > (connecting it to multiple IPs and running multiple cassandras > simultaneously)? I’m skeptical, since Cassandra already has built-in > multi-threading and since if the node went down multiple nodes would > disappear. We’re using C* version 2.0.9. > > > > A google/bing search for multihoming cassandra doesn’t turn much up. > > > > *Donald A. Smith* | Senior Software Engineer > P: 425.201.3900 x 3866 > C: (206) 819-5965 > F: (646) 443-2333 > dona...@audiencescience.com > > > [image: AudienceScience] > > >
