Just curious, why is a rolling restart difficult? Is it a tooling issue, stability, just overall fear of messing with things?
You *should* be able to do a rolling restart without it being an issue. I look at this as a fundamental workflow that every C* operator should have available, and you should be able to do them without there being any concern. Jon On 2024/12/17 16:01:06 Paul Chandler wrote: > All, > > We are getting a lot of push back on the 3 stage process of going through the > three compatibility modes to upgrade to Cassandra 5. This basically means 3 > rolling restarts of a cluster, which will be difficult for some of our large > multi DC clusters. > > Having researched this, it looks like, if you are not going to create large > TTL’s, it would be possible to go straight from C*4 to C*5 with SCM NONE. > This seems to be the same as it would have been going from 4.0 -> 4.1 > > Is there any reason why this should not be done? Has anyone had experience of > upgrading in this way? > > Thanks > > Paul Chandler > >