Thanks Guozhang and Neha for your answers. I will try Neha's approach as I want to replace the brokers.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Reshef, > > If you would like to just replace one broker at a time, then you can > shutdown the broker and start up the broker on the new box with the *same* > broker.id. By doing this, the broker will automatically sync data for all > the partitions it hosts. You can wait for the under replicated partition > count to drop to 0 and repeat the process. > > As Guozhang pointed out, you can use the cluster expansion tool if you want > to add brokers. But it looks like you want to replace so the above process > would work better. > > Thanks, > Neha > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello Reshef, > > > > Have you checked this page? > > > > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#basic_ops_cluster_expansion > > > > Guozhang > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Reshef Mann <reshef.m...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I hope someone can point me to the right place. > > > > > > I'm running a Kafka (0.8) cluster of 3 machines and would like to > upgrade > > > to bigger machines with bigger disks by replacing the servers one by > one. > > > What are steps for performing it without compromising the stability of > > the > > > system? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Reshef > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- Guozhang > > > -- Reshef http://reshefmann.com/
