Thanks Paul. Yes - finding a definitive answer is where I'm failing as well. I think we're probably going to try it and see what happens, but that's a bit worrisome.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 3:35 PM Paul Chandler <p...@redshots.com> wrote: > Hi Voytek, > > I looked into this a little while ago, and couldn’t really find a > definitive answer. We ended up keeping the GossipingPropertyFileSnitch in > our GCP Datacenter, the only downside that I could see is that you have to > manually specify the rack and DC. But doing it that way does allow you to > create a multi vendor cluster if you wished in the future. > > I would also be interested if anyone has the definitive answer one this. > > Thanks > > Paul > www.redshots.com > > On 29 Jul 2019, at 17:06, Voytek Jarnot <voytek.jar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just a quick bump - hoping someone can shed some light on whether running > different snitches in different datacenters is a terrible idea or no. It'd > be fairly temporary, once the new DC is stood up and nodes are rebuilt, the > old DC will be decomissioned. > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:36 PM Voytek Jarnot <voytek.jar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Quick and hopefully easy question for the list. Background is existing >> cluster (1 DC) will be migrated to AWS-hosted cluster via standing up a >> second datacenter, existing cluster will be subsequently decommissioned. >> >> We currently use GossipingPropertyFileSnitch and are thinking about using >> Ec2MultiRegionSnitch in the new AWS DC - that'd position us nicely if in >> the future we want to run a multi-DC cluster in AWS. My question is: are >> there any issues with one DC using GossipingPropertyFileSnitch and the >> other using Ec2MultiRegionSnitch? This setup would be temporary, existing >> until the new DC nodes have rebuilt and the old DC is decommissioned. >> >> Thanks, >> Voytek Jarnot >> > >