Cassandra: 3.0.3 I am new to Cassandra.
I am creating a test instance of four nodes, two in each data center. The idea is to verify that Cassandra can continue with writes even if one DC is down and we further lose one machine in the surviving DC. This is in my cassandra-topology.properties 10.122.66.41=DC1:RAC1 10.122.98.53=DC1:RAC2 10.122.142.218=DC2:RAC1 10.122.142.219=DC2:RAC2 # default for unknown nodes default=DC2:RAC1 Snitch property in cassandra.yaml endpoint_snitch: GossipingPropertyFileSnitch Keyspace has been defined as follows CREATE KEYSPACE mytesting WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'DC1': 1, 'DC2': 1} AND durable_writes = true ; yet when I insert to a table via cqlsh with no consistency set, I get this error Unavailable: code=1000 [Unavailable exception] message="Cannot achieve consistency level ONE" info={'required_replicas': 1, 'alive_replicas': 0, 'consistency': 'ONE'} I have verified that cassandra is up on four all nodes. What is going on? Thanks.