We're playing with Cassandra and would like to get a test cluster setup for evaluation. I've been playing with it on my laptop and EC2, which are the resources easily available to me, but not that close to what I would be using in a production environment.
What would be an ideal machine setup for a Cassandra node? At least two separate physical disks, one for the commit log and another for the data, no RAID, 8-16G memory? (I think that's what Evan recommended in his blog post) Does anyone have any configuration stories/setups they're willing to share on what has worked well and possibly what has not? Partitioning decisions and config? Sans helpful pointers, I'll probably try setting it up on a few Dell 2950 IIs / 16G ram / 2x300G 15k SAS drives. Curious what others have done and any lessons learned. Thanks, Scott
