Hi! We're running a Cassandra cluster on AWS. I want to replace an old node with EBS storage with a new one. The steps I'm following are as follows and I want to get a second opinion on whether this is the right thing to do:
1. Remove old node from gossip. 2. Run nodetool drain 3. Stop cassandra 4. Create new new node and update JVM_OPTS in cassandra-env.sh with cassandra.replace_address=<address of node being replaced> as instructed here - http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.1/cassandra/operations/opsReplaceNode.html 5. Attach the EBS volume from the old node at the same mount point. 6. Start cassandra on the new node. 7. Run nodetool repair to catch the replacing node up on whatever it has missed. Thanks!
