A 4 node zookeeper ensemble will not even work. It MUST be an odd number of zookeeper nodes to start.
For Kafka you can start with any number of nodes (including 4). Remember that it is the partitions that are replicated, not the entire broker so if you have a Kafka node crash, its only the partitions that were leaders on that node that need to move to the remaining brokers and they will try to be balanced across the remaining in-sync replicas on the remaining nodes. -hans Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 5, 2017, at 1:46 PM, Le Cyberian <lecyber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > I have a scenario where i need to configure a 4 node Kafka Cluster along > with Zookeeper having 4 nodes as well. > > I understand as a rule of them when it comes to cluster its always odd > number, however this is the case i need to do it. > > For zookeeper, i understand with a 4 node cluster i can tolerate failure of > 1 node which is same as having a 3 node cluster which does not give benefit > of having 4th one. how does it effect when it comes to leader election ? > > For Kafka its the same case, I wanted to understand if we really want to do > this and achieve fault tolerance some how. > > Thanks! > > Lee
