Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-29 Thread aaron morton
It would be handy to work out what the corruption is. Could you snapshot the 
system keyspace and store it somewhere, just incase we can look at it later ?

 Is there a way I can confirm this 
Errors in the client and/or the server log is the the traditional way. 

 go about cleaning up/restoring the proper schema?
If you need to get it back, and can handle the down time, the simple thing is 
drop the KS and re-create it. Remember to take a snapshot first. Drop keyspace 
takes one but it's the sort of thing I would do myself.

Or you can try _try_ nodetool resetlocalschema.  Without knowing what the error 
is it's hard to say if it would work. 

Cheers


-
Aaron Morton
Freelance Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 29/08/2012, at 9:10 AM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:

 I believe what may be really going on is that my schema is in a bad or 
 corrupt state.  I also have one keyspace that I just cannot drop an existing 
 column family from even though it shows no errors.
   
 So right now I was able to get 4 of my 6 keyspaces over to Network Topology 
 strategy.
  
 I think I got into this bad state after pointing Opscenter at this cluster 
 for the first time, as it started throwing errors after that and crashed a 
 couple of my nodes until I stopped it and its agents.
  
 Is there a way I can confirm this or go about cleaning up/restoring the 
 proper schema?
  
 From: Bryce Godfrey [mailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com] 
 Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:09 AM
 To: user@cassandra.apache.org
 Subject: RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter
  
 So in an interesting turn of events, this works on my other 4 keyspaces but 
 just not this ‘EBonding’ one which will not recognize the changes.  I can 
 probably get around this by dropping and re-creating this keyspace since its 
 uptime is not too important for us.
  
 [default@AlertStats] describe AlertStats;
 Keyspace: AlertStats:
   Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy
   Durable Writes: true
 Options: [Fisher:3]
  
 From: Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com] 
 Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 3:50 PM
 To: user@cassandra.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter
  
 Can you describe your schema again with TierPoint in it?
 
 On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com 
 wrote:
 Same results.  I restarted the node also to see if it just wasn’t picking up 
 the changes and it still shows Simple. 
  
 When I specify the DC for strategy_options I should be using the DC name from 
 properfy file snitch right?  Ours is “Fisher” and “TierPoint” so that’s what 
 I used.
  
 From: Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com] 
 Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:21 PM
 
 To: user@cassandra.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter
  
 In your update command is it possible to specify RF for both DC? You could 
 just do DC1:2, DC2:0.
 
 On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com 
 wrote:
 Show schema output show the simple strategy still
 [default@unknown] show schema EBonding;
 create keyspace EBonding
   with placement_strategy = 'SimpleStrategy'
   and strategy_options = {replication_factor : 2}
   and durable_writes = true;
  
 This is the only thing I see in the system log at the time on all the nodes:
  
 INFO [MigrationStage:1] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,608 ColumnFamilyStore.java (line 
 659) Enqueuing flush of Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 
 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
 INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,612 Memtable.java (line 264) 
 Writing Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 serialized/live bytes, 4 
 ops)
 INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,627 Memtable.java (line 305) 
 Completed flushing 
 /opt/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-he-34817-Data.db
  (241 bytes) for commitlog p$
  
  
 Should I turn the logging level up on something to see some more info maybe?
  
 From: aaron morton [mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com] 
 Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:35 AM
 
 To: user@cassandra.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter
  
 I did a quick test on a clean 1.1.4 and it worked 
  
 Can you check the logs for errors ? Can you see your schema change in there ?
  
 Also what is the output from show schema; in the cli ? 
  
 Cheers
  
 -
 Aaron Morton
 Freelance Developer
 @aaronmorton
 http://www.thelastpickle.com
  
 On 25/08/2012, at 6:53 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
  
 
 Yes
  
 [default@unknown] describe cluster;
 Cluster Information:
Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.PropertyFileSnitch
Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner
Schema versions:
 9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6: [10.20.8.4, 10.20.8.5, 
 10.20.8.1, 10.20.8.2, 10.20.8.3]
  
 From: Mohit Anchlia

RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-29 Thread Bryce Godfrey
Well I tried to drop the keyspace, but it's still there.  No errors in logs and 
Cassandra-cli showed the schema agreement after the command.  I took a snapshot 
of the system keyspace first.  Nothing is crashing in the clients yet either, 
still able to read/write to that keyspace.

[default@EBonding] drop keyspace EBonding;
2eb11095-b8a8-31cd-80c3-c748d32a4208
Waiting for schema agreement...
... schemas agree across the cluster

[default@unknown] use EBonding;
Authenticated to keyspace: EBonding
[default@EBonding] describe;
Keyspace: EBonding:
  Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy
  Durable Writes: true
Options: [replication_factor:2]

From: aaron morton [mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 2:36 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

It would be handy to work out what the corruption is. Could you snapshot the 
system keyspace and store it somewhere, just incase we can look at it later ?

Is there a way I can confirm this
Errors in the client and/or the server log is the the traditional way.

go about cleaning up/restoring the proper schema?
If you need to get it back, and can handle the down time, the simple thing is 
drop the KS and re-create it. Remember to take a snapshot first. Drop keyspace 
takes one but it's the sort of thing I would do myself.

Or you can try _try_ nodetool resetlocalschema.  Without knowing what the error 
is it's hard to say if it would work.

Cheers


-
Aaron Morton
Freelance Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 29/08/2012, at 9:10 AM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:


I believe what may be really going on is that my schema is in a bad or corrupt 
state.  I also have one keyspace that I just cannot drop an existing column 
family from even though it shows no errors.

So right now I was able to get 4 of my 6 keyspaces over to Network Topology 
strategy.

I think I got into this bad state after pointing Opscenter at this cluster for 
the first time, as it started throwing errors after that and crashed a couple 
of my nodes until I stopped it and its agents.

Is there a way I can confirm this or go about cleaning up/restoring the proper 
schema?

From: Bryce Godfrey [mailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.comhttp://azaleos.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:09 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

So in an interesting turn of events, this works on my other 4 keyspaces but 
just not this 'EBonding' one which will not recognize the changes.  I can 
probably get around this by dropping and re-creating this keyspace since its 
uptime is not too important for us.

[default@AlertStats] describe AlertStats;
Keyspace: AlertStats:
  Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy
  Durable Writes: true
Options: [Fisher:3]

From: Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 3:50 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

Can you describe your schema again with TierPoint in it?
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
Same results.  I restarted the node also to see if it just wasn't picking up 
the changes and it still shows Simple.

When I specify the DC for strategy_options I should be using the DC name from 
properfy file snitch right?  Ours is Fisher and TierPoint so that's what I 
used.

From: Mohit Anchlia 
[mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.commailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:21 PM

To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

In your update command is it possible to specify RF for both DC? You could just 
do DC1:2, DC2:0.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
Show schema output show the simple strategy still
[default@unknown] show schema EBonding;
create keyspace EBonding
  with placement_strategy = 'SimpleStrategy'
  and strategy_options = {replication_factor : 2}
  and durable_writes = true;

This is the only thing I see in the system log at the time on all the nodes:

INFO [MigrationStage:1] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,608 ColumnFamilyStore.java (line 
659) Enqueuing flush of Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 
serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,612 Memtable.java (line 264) Writing 
Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,627 Memtable.java (line 305) 
Completed flushing 
/opt/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-he-34817-Data.db
 (241 bytes) for commitlog p$


Should

RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-28 Thread Bryce Godfrey
So in an interesting turn of events, this works on my other 4 keyspaces but 
just not this 'EBonding' one which will not recognize the changes.  I can 
probably get around this by dropping and re-creating this keyspace since its 
uptime is not too important for us.

[default@AlertStats] describe AlertStats;
Keyspace: AlertStats:
  Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy
  Durable Writes: true
Options: [Fisher:3]

From: Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 3:50 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

Can you describe your schema again with TierPoint in it?
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
Same results.  I restarted the node also to see if it just wasn't picking up 
the changes and it still shows Simple.

When I specify the DC for strategy_options I should be using the DC name from 
properfy file snitch right?  Ours is Fisher and TierPoint so that's what I 
used.

From: Mohit Anchlia 
[mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.commailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:21 PM

To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

In your update command is it possible to specify RF for both DC? You could just 
do DC1:2, DC2:0.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
Show schema output show the simple strategy still
[default@unknown] show schema EBonding;
create keyspace EBonding
  with placement_strategy = 'SimpleStrategy'
  and strategy_options = {replication_factor : 2}
  and durable_writes = true;

This is the only thing I see in the system log at the time on all the nodes:

INFO [MigrationStage:1] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,608 ColumnFamilyStore.java (line 
659) Enqueuing flush of Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 
serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,612 Memtable.java (line 264) Writing 
Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,627 Memtable.java (line 305) 
Completed flushing 
/opt/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-he-34817-Data.db
 (241 bytes) for commitlog p$


Should I turn the logging level up on something to see some more info maybe?

From: aaron morton 
[mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.commailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:35 AM

To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

I did a quick test on a clean 1.1.4 and it worked

Can you check the logs for errors ? Can you see your schema change in there ?

Also what is the output from show schema; in the cli ?

Cheers

-
Aaron Morton
Freelance Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.comhttp://www.thelastpickle.com/

On 25/08/2012, at 6:53 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:

Yes

[default@unknown] describe cluster;
Cluster Information:
   Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.PropertyFileSnitch
   Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner
   Schema versions:
9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6: [10.20.8.4, 10.20.8.5, 10.20.8.1, 
10.20.8.2, 10.20.8.3]

From: Mohit Anchlia 
[mailto:mohitanchlia@mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.comhttp://gmail.com/]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:55 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

That's interesting can you do describe cluster?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
So I'm at the point of updating the keyspaces from Simple to NetworkTopology 
and I'm not sure if the changes are being accepted using Cassandra-cli.

I issue the change:

[default@EBonding] update keyspace EBonding
... with placement_strategy = 
'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy'
... and strategy_options={Fisher:2};
9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6
Waiting for schema agreement...
... schemas agree across the cluster

Then I do a describe and it still shows the old strategy.  Is there something 
else that I need to do?  I've exited and restarted Cassandra-cli and it still 
shows the SimpleStrategy for that keyspace.  Other nodes show the same 
information.

[default@EBonding] describe EBonding;
Keyspace: EBonding:
  Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy
  Durable Writes: true
Options: [replication_factor:2]


From: Bryce Godfrey 
[mailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:06 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: RE: Expanding cluster to include

RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-28 Thread Bryce Godfrey
I believe what may be really going on is that my schema is in a bad or corrupt 
state.  I also have one keyspace that I just cannot drop an existing column 
family from even though it shows no errors.

So right now I was able to get 4 of my 6 keyspaces over to Network Topology 
strategy.

I think I got into this bad state after pointing Opscenter at this cluster for 
the first time, as it started throwing errors after that and crashed a couple 
of my nodes until I stopped it and its agents.

Is there a way I can confirm this or go about cleaning up/restoring the proper 
schema?

From: Bryce Godfrey [mailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:09 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

So in an interesting turn of events, this works on my other 4 keyspaces but 
just not this 'EBonding' one which will not recognize the changes.  I can 
probably get around this by dropping and re-creating this keyspace since its 
uptime is not too important for us.

[default@AlertStats] describe AlertStats;
Keyspace: AlertStats:
  Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy
  Durable Writes: true
Options: [Fisher:3]

From: Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 3:50 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

Can you describe your schema again with TierPoint in it?
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
Same results.  I restarted the node also to see if it just wasn't picking up 
the changes and it still shows Simple.

When I specify the DC for strategy_options I should be using the DC name from 
properfy file snitch right?  Ours is Fisher and TierPoint so that's what I 
used.

From: Mohit Anchlia 
[mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.commailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:21 PM

To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

In your update command is it possible to specify RF for both DC? You could just 
do DC1:2, DC2:0.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
Show schema output show the simple strategy still
[default@unknown] show schema EBonding;
create keyspace EBonding
  with placement_strategy = 'SimpleStrategy'
  and strategy_options = {replication_factor : 2}
  and durable_writes = true;

This is the only thing I see in the system log at the time on all the nodes:

INFO [MigrationStage:1] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,608 ColumnFamilyStore.java (line 
659) Enqueuing flush of Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 
serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,612 Memtable.java (line 264) Writing 
Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,627 Memtable.java (line 305) 
Completed flushing 
/opt/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-he-34817-Data.db
 (241 bytes) for commitlog p$


Should I turn the logging level up on something to see some more info maybe?

From: aaron morton 
[mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.commailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:35 AM

To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

I did a quick test on a clean 1.1.4 and it worked

Can you check the logs for errors ? Can you see your schema change in there ?

Also what is the output from show schema; in the cli ?

Cheers

-
Aaron Morton
Freelance Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.comhttp://www.thelastpickle.com/

On 25/08/2012, at 6:53 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:

Yes

[default@unknown] describe cluster;
Cluster Information:
   Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.PropertyFileSnitch
   Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner
   Schema versions:
9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6: [10.20.8.4, 10.20.8.5, 10.20.8.1, 
10.20.8.2, 10.20.8.3]

From: Mohit Anchlia 
[mailto:mohitanchlia@mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.comhttp://gmail.com/]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:55 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

That's interesting can you do describe cluster?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
So I'm at the point of updating the keyspaces from Simple to NetworkTopology 
and I'm not sure if the changes are being accepted using Cassandra-cli.

I issue the change:

[default@EBonding] update keyspace EBonding
... with placement_strategy = 
'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy

Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-27 Thread aaron morton
I did a quick test on a clean 1.1.4 and it worked 

Can you check the logs for errors ? Can you see your schema change in there ?

Also what is the output from show schema; in the cli ? 

Cheers

-
Aaron Morton
Freelance Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 25/08/2012, at 6:53 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:

 Yes
  
 [default@unknown] describe cluster;
 Cluster Information:
Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.PropertyFileSnitch
Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner
Schema versions:
 9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6: [10.20.8.4, 10.20.8.5, 
 10.20.8.1, 10.20.8.2, 10.20.8.3]
  
 From: Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com] 
 Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:55 PM
 To: user@cassandra.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter
  
 That's interesting can you do describe cluster?
 
 On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com 
 wrote:
 So I’m at the point of updating the keyspaces from Simple to NetworkTopology 
 and I’m not sure if the changes are being accepted using Cassandra-cli.
  
 I issue the change:
  
 [default@EBonding] update keyspace EBonding
 ... with placement_strategy = 
 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy'
 ... and strategy_options={Fisher:2};
 9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6
 Waiting for schema agreement...
 ... schemas agree across the cluster
  
 Then I do a describe and it still shows the old strategy.  Is there something 
 else that I need to do?  I’ve exited and restarted Cassandra-cli and it still 
 shows the SimpleStrategy for that keyspace.  Other nodes show the same 
 information.
  
 [default@EBonding] describe EBonding;
 Keyspace: EBonding:
   Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy
   Durable Writes: true
 Options: [replication_factor:2]
  
  
 From: Bryce Godfrey [mailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com] 
 Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:06 AM
 To: user@cassandra.apache.org
 Subject: RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter
  
 Thanks for the information!  Answers my questions.
  
 From: Tyler Hobbs [mailto:ty...@datastax.com] 
 Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:10 PM
 To: user@cassandra.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter
  
 If you didn't see this particular section, you may find it 
 useful:http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/operations/cluster_management#adding-a-data-center-to-a-cluster
 
 Some comments inline:
 
 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com 
 wrote:
 We are in the process of building out a new DR system in another Data Center, 
 and we want to mirror our Cassandra environment to that DR.  I have a couple 
 questions on the best way to do this after reading the documentation on the 
 Datastax website.  We didn’t initially plan for this to be a DR setup when 
 first deployed a while ago due to budgeting, but now we need to.  So I’m just 
 trying to nail down the order of doing this as well as any potential issues.
  
 For the nodes, we don’t plan on querying the servers in this DR until we fail 
 over to this data center.   We are going to have 5 similar nodes in the DR, 
 should I join them into the ring at token+1?
 
 Join them at token+10 just to leave a little space.  Make sure you're using 
 LOCAL_QUORUM for your queries instead of regular QUORUM.
  
  
 All keyspaces are set to the replication strategy of SimpleStrategy.  Can I 
 change the replication strategy after joining the new nodes in the DR to 
 NetworkTopologyStategy with the updated replication factor for each dr?
 
 Switch your keyspaces over to NetworkTopologyStrategy before adding the new 
 nodes.  For the strategy options, just list the first dc until the second is 
 up (e.g. {main_dc: 3}).
  
  
 Lastly, is changing snitch from default of SimpleSnitch to 
 RackInferringSnitch going to cause any issues?  Since its in the 
 Cassandra.yaml file I assume a rolling restart to pick up the value would be 
 ok?
 
 This is the first thing you'll want to do.  Unless your node IPs would 
 naturally put all nodes in a DC in the same rack, I recommend using 
 PropertyFileSnitch, explicitly using the same rack.  (I tend to prefer 
 PFSnitch regardless; it's harder to accidentally mess up.)  A rolling restart 
 is required to pick up the change.  Make sure to fill out 
 cassandra-topology.properties first if using PFSnitch.
  
  
 This is all on Cassandra 1.1.4, Thanks for any help!
  
  
 
 
 
 -- 
 Tyler Hobbs
 DataStax
 



RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-27 Thread Bryce Godfrey
Show schema output show the simple strategy still
[default@unknown] show schema EBonding;
create keyspace EBonding
  with placement_strategy = 'SimpleStrategy'
  and strategy_options = {replication_factor : 2}
  and durable_writes = true;

This is the only thing I see in the system log at the time on all the nodes:

INFO [MigrationStage:1] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,608 ColumnFamilyStore.java (line 
659) Enqueuing flush of Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 
serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,612 Memtable.java (line 264) Writing 
Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,627 Memtable.java (line 305) 
Completed flushing 
/opt/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-he-34817-Data.db
 (241 bytes) for commitlog p$


Should I turn the logging level up on something to see some more info maybe?

From: aaron morton [mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:35 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

I did a quick test on a clean 1.1.4 and it worked

Can you check the logs for errors ? Can you see your schema change in there ?

Also what is the output from show schema; in the cli ?

Cheers

-
Aaron Morton
Freelance Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 25/08/2012, at 6:53 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:


Yes

[default@unknown] describe cluster;
Cluster Information:
   Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.PropertyFileSnitch
   Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner
   Schema versions:
9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6: [10.20.8.4, 10.20.8.5, 10.20.8.1, 
10.20.8.2, 10.20.8.3]

From: Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.comhttp://gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:55 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

That's interesting can you do describe cluster?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
So I'm at the point of updating the keyspaces from Simple to NetworkTopology 
and I'm not sure if the changes are being accepted using Cassandra-cli.

I issue the change:

[default@EBonding] update keyspace EBonding
... with placement_strategy = 
'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy'
... and strategy_options={Fisher:2};
9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6
Waiting for schema agreement...
... schemas agree across the cluster

Then I do a describe and it still shows the old strategy.  Is there something 
else that I need to do?  I've exited and restarted Cassandra-cli and it still 
shows the SimpleStrategy for that keyspace.  Other nodes show the same 
information.

[default@EBonding] describe EBonding;
Keyspace: EBonding:
  Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy
  Durable Writes: true
Options: [replication_factor:2]


From: Bryce Godfrey 
[mailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:06 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

Thanks for the information!  Answers my questions.

From: Tyler Hobbs [mailto:ty...@datastax.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:10 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

If you didn't see this particular section, you may find it 
useful:http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/operations/cluster_management#adding-a-data-center-to-a-cluster

Some comments inline:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
We are in the process of building out a new DR system in another Data Center, 
and we want to mirror our Cassandra environment to that DR.  I have a couple 
questions on the best way to do this after reading the documentation on the 
Datastax website.  We didn't initially plan for this to be a DR setup when 
first deployed a while ago due to budgeting, but now we need to.  So I'm just 
trying to nail down the order of doing this as well as any potential issues.

For the nodes, we don't plan on querying the servers in this DR until we fail 
over to this data center.   We are going to have 5 similar nodes in the DR, 
should I join them into the ring at token+1?

Join them at token+10 just to leave a little space.  Make sure you're using 
LOCAL_QUORUM for your queries instead of regular QUORUM.


All keyspaces are set to the replication strategy of SimpleStrategy.  Can I 
change the replication strategy after joining the new nodes in the DR to 
NetworkTopologyStategy with the updated replication factor for each dr?

Switch your keyspaces over

Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-27 Thread Mohit Anchlia
In your update command is it possible to specify RF for both DC? You could
just do DC1:2, DC2:0.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bryce Godfrey
bryce.godf...@azaleos.comwrote:

  Show schema output show the simple strategy still

 [default@unknown] show schema EBonding;

 create keyspace EBonding

   with placement_strategy = 'SimpleStrategy'

   and strategy_options = {replication_factor : 2}

   and durable_writes = true;

 ** **

 This is the only thing I see in the system log at the time on all the
 nodes:

 ** **

 INFO [MigrationStage:1] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,608 ColumnFamilyStore.java
 (line 659) Enqueuing flush of Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228
 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)

 INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,612 Memtable.java (line 264)
 Writing Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 serialized/live
 bytes, 4 ops)

 INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,627 Memtable.java (line 305)
 Completed flushing
 /opt/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-he-34817-Data.db
 (241 bytes) for commitlog p$

 ** **

 ** **

 Should I turn the logging level up on something to see some more info
 maybe?

 ** **

 *From:* aaron morton [mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, August 27, 2012 1:35 AM

 *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org
 *Subject:* Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

  ** **

 I did a quick test on a clean 1.1.4 and it worked 

 ** **

 Can you check the logs for errors ? Can you see your schema change in
 there ?

 ** **

 Also what is the output from show schema; in the cli ? 

 ** **

 Cheers

 ** **

 -

 Aaron Morton

 Freelance Developer

 @aaronmorton

 http://www.thelastpickle.com

 ** **

 On 25/08/2012, at 6:53 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com
 wrote:



 

  Yes

  

 [default@unknown] describe cluster;

 Cluster Information:

Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.PropertyFileSnitch

Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner

Schema versions:

 9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6: [10.20.8.4, 10.20.8.5,
 10.20.8.1, 10.20.8.2, 10.20.8.3]

  

 *From:* Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Friday, August 24, 2012 1:55 PM
 *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org
 *Subject:* Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

  

 That's interesting can you do describe cluster?

 On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com
 wrote:

  So I’m at the point of updating the keyspaces from Simple to
 NetworkTopology and I’m not sure if the changes are being accepted using
 Cassandra-cli.

  

 I issue the change:

  

 [default@EBonding] update keyspace EBonding

 ... with placement_strategy =
 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy'

 ... and strategy_options={Fisher:2};

 9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6

 Waiting for schema agreement...

 ... schemas agree across the cluster

  

 Then I do a describe and it still shows the old strategy.  Is there
 something else that I need to do?  I’ve exited and restarted Cassandra-cli
 and it still shows the SimpleStrategy for that keyspace.  Other nodes show
 the same information.

  

 [default@EBonding] describe EBonding;

 Keyspace: EBonding:

   Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy

   Durable Writes: true

 Options: [replication_factor:2]

  

  

 *From:* Bryce Godfrey [mailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com]
 *Sent:* Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:06 AM
 *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org
 *Subject:* RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

  

 Thanks for the information!  Answers my questions.

  

 *From:* Tyler Hobbs [mailto:ty...@datastax.com ty...@datastax.com]
 *Sent:* Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:10 PM
 *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org
 *Subject:* Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

  

 If you didn't see this particular section, you may find it useful:
 http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/operations/cluster_management#adding-a-data-center-to-a-cluster

 Some comments inline:

 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com
 wrote:

  We are in the process of building out a new DR system in another Data
 Center, and we want to mirror our Cassandra environment to that DR.  I have
 a couple questions on the best way to do this after reading the
 documentation on the Datastax website.  We didn’t initially plan for this
 to be a DR setup when first deployed a while ago due to budgeting, but now
 we need to.  So I’m just trying to nail down the order of doing this as
 well as any potential issues.

  

 For the nodes, we don’t plan on querying the servers in this DR until we
 fail over to this data center

RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-27 Thread Bryce Godfrey
Same results.  I restarted the node also to see if it just wasn't picking up 
the changes and it still shows Simple.

When I specify the DC for strategy_options I should be using the DC name from 
properfy file snitch right?  Ours is Fisher and TierPoint so that's what I 
used.

From: Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:21 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

In your update command is it possible to specify RF for both DC? You could just 
do DC1:2, DC2:0.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
Show schema output show the simple strategy still
[default@unknown] show schema EBonding;
create keyspace EBonding
  with placement_strategy = 'SimpleStrategy'
  and strategy_options = {replication_factor : 2}
  and durable_writes = true;

This is the only thing I see in the system log at the time on all the nodes:

INFO [MigrationStage:1] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,608 ColumnFamilyStore.java (line 
659) Enqueuing flush of Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 
serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,612 Memtable.java (line 264) Writing 
Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,627 Memtable.java (line 305) 
Completed flushing 
/opt/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-he-34817-Data.db
 (241 bytes) for commitlog p$


Should I turn the logging level up on something to see some more info maybe?

From: aaron morton 
[mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.commailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:35 AM

To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

I did a quick test on a clean 1.1.4 and it worked

Can you check the logs for errors ? Can you see your schema change in there ?

Also what is the output from show schema; in the cli ?

Cheers

-
Aaron Morton
Freelance Developer
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.comhttp://www.thelastpickle.com/

On 25/08/2012, at 6:53 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:

Yes

[default@unknown] describe cluster;
Cluster Information:
   Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.PropertyFileSnitch
   Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner
   Schema versions:
9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6: [10.20.8.4, 10.20.8.5, 10.20.8.1, 
10.20.8.2, 10.20.8.3]

From: Mohit Anchlia 
[mailto:mohitanchlia@mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.comhttp://gmail.com/]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:55 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

That's interesting can you do describe cluster?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
So I'm at the point of updating the keyspaces from Simple to NetworkTopology 
and I'm not sure if the changes are being accepted using Cassandra-cli.

I issue the change:

[default@EBonding] update keyspace EBonding
... with placement_strategy = 
'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy'
... and strategy_options={Fisher:2};
9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6
Waiting for schema agreement...
... schemas agree across the cluster

Then I do a describe and it still shows the old strategy.  Is there something 
else that I need to do?  I've exited and restarted Cassandra-cli and it still 
shows the SimpleStrategy for that keyspace.  Other nodes show the same 
information.

[default@EBonding] describe EBonding;
Keyspace: EBonding:
  Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy
  Durable Writes: true
Options: [replication_factor:2]


From: Bryce Godfrey 
[mailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:06 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

Thanks for the information!  Answers my questions.

From: Tyler Hobbs [mailto:ty...@datastax.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:10 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

If you didn't see this particular section, you may find it 
useful:http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/operations/cluster_management#adding-a-data-center-to-a-cluster

Some comments inline:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
We are in the process of building out a new DR system in another Data Center, 
and we want to mirror our Cassandra environment to that DR.  I have a couple 
questions on the best way to do this after reading the documentation on the 
Datastax website.  We didn't initially plan

Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-27 Thread Mohit Anchlia
Can you describe your schema again with TierPoint in it?

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.comwrote:

  Same results.  I restarted the node also to see if it just wasn’t
 picking up the changes and it still shows Simple.  

 ** **

 When I specify the DC for strategy_options I should be using the DC name
 from properfy file snitch right?  Ours is “Fisher” and “TierPoint” so
 that’s what I used.

 ** **

 *From:* Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, August 27, 2012 1:21 PM

 *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org
 *Subject:* Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

  ** **

 In your update command is it possible to specify RF for both DC? You could
 just do DC1:2, DC2:0.

 On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com
 wrote:

  Show schema output show the simple strategy still

 [default@unknown] show schema EBonding;

 create keyspace EBonding

   with placement_strategy = 'SimpleStrategy'

   and strategy_options = {replication_factor : 2}

   and durable_writes = true;

  

 This is the only thing I see in the system log at the time on all the
 nodes:

  

 INFO [MigrationStage:1] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,608 ColumnFamilyStore.java
 (line 659) Enqueuing flush of Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228
 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)

 INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,612 Memtable.java (line 264)
 Writing Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1157216346(183/228 serialized/live
 bytes, 4 ops)

 INFO [FlushWriter:765] 2012-08-27 10:54:18,627 Memtable.java (line 305)
 Completed flushing
 /opt/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-he-34817-Data.db
 (241 bytes) for commitlog p$

  

  

 Should I turn the logging level up on something to see some more info
 maybe?

  

 *From:* aaron morton [mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com]
 *Sent:* Monday, August 27, 2012 1:35 AM 


 *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org
 *Subject:* Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

  

 I did a quick test on a clean 1.1.4 and it worked 

  

 Can you check the logs for errors ? Can you see your schema change in
 there ?

  

 Also what is the output from show schema; in the cli ? 

  

 Cheers

  

 -

 Aaron Morton

 Freelance Developer

 @aaronmorton

 http://www.thelastpickle.com

  

 On 25/08/2012, at 6:53 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com
 wrote:

 ** **

  Yes

  

 [default@unknown] describe cluster;

 Cluster Information:

Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.PropertyFileSnitch

Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner

Schema versions:

 9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6: [10.20.8.4, 10.20.8.5,
 10.20.8.1, 10.20.8.2, 10.20.8.3]

  

 *From:* Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Friday, August 24, 2012 1:55 PM
 *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org
 *Subject:* Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

  

 That's interesting can you do describe cluster?

 On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.com
 wrote:

  So I’m at the point of updating the keyspaces from Simple to
 NetworkTopology and I’m not sure if the changes are being accepted using
 Cassandra-cli.

  

 I issue the change:

  

 [default@EBonding] update keyspace EBonding

 ... with placement_strategy =
 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy'

 ... and strategy_options={Fisher:2};

 9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6

 Waiting for schema agreement...

 ... schemas agree across the cluster

  

 Then I do a describe and it still shows the old strategy.  Is there
 something else that I need to do?  I’ve exited and restarted Cassandra-cli
 and it still shows the SimpleStrategy for that keyspace.  Other nodes show
 the same information.

  

 [default@EBonding] describe EBonding;

 Keyspace: EBonding:

   Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy

   Durable Writes: true

 Options: [replication_factor:2]

  

  

 *From:* Bryce Godfrey [mailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com]
 *Sent:* Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:06 AM
 *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org
 *Subject:* RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

  

 Thanks for the information!  Answers my questions.

  

 *From:* Tyler Hobbs [mailto:ty...@datastax.com ty...@datastax.com]
 *Sent:* Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:10 PM
 *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org
 *Subject:* Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

  

 If you didn't see this particular section, you may find it useful:
 http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/operations/cluster_management#adding-a-data-center-to-a-cluster

 Some comments inline

RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-25 Thread Bryce Godfrey
Yes

[default@unknown] describe cluster;
Cluster Information:
   Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.PropertyFileSnitch
   Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner
   Schema versions:
9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6: [10.20.8.4, 10.20.8.5, 10.20.8.1, 
10.20.8.2, 10.20.8.3]

From: Mohit Anchlia [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:55 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

That's interesting can you do describe cluster?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
So I'm at the point of updating the keyspaces from Simple to NetworkTopology 
and I'm not sure if the changes are being accepted using Cassandra-cli.

I issue the change:

[default@EBonding] update keyspace EBonding
... with placement_strategy = 
'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy'
... and strategy_options={Fisher:2};
9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6
Waiting for schema agreement...
... schemas agree across the cluster

Then I do a describe and it still shows the old strategy.  Is there something 
else that I need to do?  I've exited and restarted Cassandra-cli and it still 
shows the SimpleStrategy for that keyspace.  Other nodes show the same 
information.

[default@EBonding] describe EBonding;
Keyspace: EBonding:
  Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy
  Durable Writes: true
Options: [replication_factor:2]


From: Bryce Godfrey 
[mailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:06 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

Thanks for the information!  Answers my questions.

From: Tyler Hobbs [mailto:ty...@datastax.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:10 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

If you didn't see this particular section, you may find it useful: 
http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/operations/cluster_management#adding-a-data-center-to-a-cluster

Some comments inline:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
We are in the process of building out a new DR system in another Data Center, 
and we want to mirror our Cassandra environment to that DR.  I have a couple 
questions on the best way to do this after reading the documentation on the 
Datastax website.  We didn't initially plan for this to be a DR setup when 
first deployed a while ago due to budgeting, but now we need to.  So I'm just 
trying to nail down the order of doing this as well as any potential issues.

For the nodes, we don't plan on querying the servers in this DR until we fail 
over to this data center.   We are going to have 5 similar nodes in the DR, 
should I join them into the ring at token+1?

Join them at token+10 just to leave a little space.  Make sure you're using 
LOCAL_QUORUM for your queries instead of regular QUORUM.


All keyspaces are set to the replication strategy of SimpleStrategy.  Can I 
change the replication strategy after joining the new nodes in the DR to 
NetworkTopologyStategy with the updated replication factor for each dr?

Switch your keyspaces over to NetworkTopologyStrategy before adding the new 
nodes.  For the strategy options, just list the first dc until the second is up 
(e.g. {main_dc: 3}).


Lastly, is changing snitch from default of SimpleSnitch to RackInferringSnitch 
going to cause any issues?  Since its in the Cassandra.yaml file I assume a 
rolling restart to pick up the value would be ok?

This is the first thing you'll want to do.  Unless your node IPs would 
naturally put all nodes in a DC in the same rack, I recommend using 
PropertyFileSnitch, explicitly using the same rack.  (I tend to prefer PFSnitch 
regardless; it's harder to accidentally mess up.)  A rolling restart is 
required to pick up the change.  Make sure to fill out 
cassandra-topology.properties first if using PFSnitch.


This is all on Cassandra 1.1.4, Thanks for any help!





--
Tyler Hobbs
DataStaxhttp://datastax.com/



RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-24 Thread Bryce Godfrey
So I'm at the point of updating the keyspaces from Simple to NetworkTopology 
and I'm not sure if the changes are being accepted using Cassandra-cli.

I issue the change:

[default@EBonding] update keyspace EBonding
... with placement_strategy = 
'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy'
... and strategy_options={Fisher:2};
9511e292-f1b6-3f78-b781-4c90aeb6b0f6
Waiting for schema agreement...
... schemas agree across the cluster

Then I do a describe and it still shows the old strategy.  Is there something 
else that I need to do?  I've exited and restarted Cassandra-cli and it still 
shows the SimpleStrategy for that keyspace.  Other nodes show the same 
information.

[default@EBonding] describe EBonding;
Keyspace: EBonding:
  Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy
  Durable Writes: true
Options: [replication_factor:2]


From: Bryce Godfrey [mailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:06 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

Thanks for the information!  Answers my questions.

From: Tyler Hobbs [mailto:ty...@datastax.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:10 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

If you didn't see this particular section, you may find it useful: 
http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/operations/cluster_management#adding-a-data-center-to-a-cluster

Some comments inline:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
We are in the process of building out a new DR system in another Data Center, 
and we want to mirror our Cassandra environment to that DR.  I have a couple 
questions on the best way to do this after reading the documentation on the 
Datastax website.  We didn't initially plan for this to be a DR setup when 
first deployed a while ago due to budgeting, but now we need to.  So I'm just 
trying to nail down the order of doing this as well as any potential issues.

For the nodes, we don't plan on querying the servers in this DR until we fail 
over to this data center.   We are going to have 5 similar nodes in the DR, 
should I join them into the ring at token+1?

Join them at token+10 just to leave a little space.  Make sure you're using 
LOCAL_QUORUM for your queries instead of regular QUORUM.


All keyspaces are set to the replication strategy of SimpleStrategy.  Can I 
change the replication strategy after joining the new nodes in the DR to 
NetworkTopologyStategy with the updated replication factor for each dr?

Switch your keyspaces over to NetworkTopologyStrategy before adding the new 
nodes.  For the strategy options, just list the first dc until the second is up 
(e.g. {main_dc: 3}).


Lastly, is changing snitch from default of SimpleSnitch to RackInferringSnitch 
going to cause any issues?  Since its in the Cassandra.yaml file I assume a 
rolling restart to pick up the value would be ok?

This is the first thing you'll want to do.  Unless your node IPs would 
naturally put all nodes in a DC in the same rack, I recommend using 
PropertyFileSnitch, explicitly using the same rack.  (I tend to prefer PFSnitch 
regardless; it's harder to accidentally mess up.)  A rolling restart is 
required to pick up the change.  Make sure to fill out 
cassandra-topology.properties first if using PFSnitch.


This is all on Cassandra 1.1.4, Thanks for any help!





--
Tyler Hobbs
DataStaxhttp://datastax.com/


RE: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-23 Thread Bryce Godfrey
Thanks for the information!  Answers my questions.

From: Tyler Hobbs [mailto:ty...@datastax.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:10 PM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

If you didn't see this particular section, you may find it useful: 
http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/operations/cluster_management#adding-a-data-center-to-a-cluster

Some comments inline:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Bryce Godfrey 
bryce.godf...@azaleos.commailto:bryce.godf...@azaleos.com wrote:
We are in the process of building out a new DR system in another Data Center, 
and we want to mirror our Cassandra environment to that DR.  I have a couple 
questions on the best way to do this after reading the documentation on the 
Datastax website.  We didn't initially plan for this to be a DR setup when 
first deployed a while ago due to budgeting, but now we need to.  So I'm just 
trying to nail down the order of doing this as well as any potential issues.

For the nodes, we don't plan on querying the servers in this DR until we fail 
over to this data center.   We are going to have 5 similar nodes in the DR, 
should I join them into the ring at token+1?

Join them at token+10 just to leave a little space.  Make sure you're using 
LOCAL_QUORUM for your queries instead of regular QUORUM.


All keyspaces are set to the replication strategy of SimpleStrategy.  Can I 
change the replication strategy after joining the new nodes in the DR to 
NetworkTopologyStategy with the updated replication factor for each dr?

Switch your keyspaces over to NetworkTopologyStrategy before adding the new 
nodes.  For the strategy options, just list the first dc until the second is up 
(e.g. {main_dc: 3}).


Lastly, is changing snitch from default of SimpleSnitch to RackInferringSnitch 
going to cause any issues?  Since its in the Cassandra.yaml file I assume a 
rolling restart to pick up the value would be ok?

This is the first thing you'll want to do.  Unless your node IPs would 
naturally put all nodes in a DC in the same rack, I recommend using 
PropertyFileSnitch, explicitly using the same rack.  (I tend to prefer PFSnitch 
regardless; it's harder to accidentally mess up.)  A rolling restart is 
required to pick up the change.  Make sure to fill out 
cassandra-topology.properties first if using PFSnitch.


This is all on Cassandra 1.1.4, Thanks for any help!





--
Tyler Hobbs
DataStaxhttp://datastax.com/


Re: Expanding cluster to include a new DR datacenter

2012-08-22 Thread Tyler Hobbs
If you didn't see this particular section, you may find it useful:
http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/operations/cluster_management#adding-a-data-center-to-a-cluster

Some comments inline:

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Bryce Godfrey bryce.godf...@azaleos.comwrote:

  We are in the process of building out a new DR system in another Data
 Center, and we want to mirror our Cassandra environment to that DR.  I have
 a couple questions on the best way to do this after reading the
 documentation on the Datastax website.  We didn’t initially plan for this
 to be a DR setup when first deployed a while ago due to budgeting, but now
 we need to.  So I’m just trying to nail down the order of doing this as
 well as any potential issues.

 ** **

 For the nodes, we don’t plan on querying the servers in this DR until we
 fail over to this data center.   We are going to have 5 similar nodes in
 the DR, should I join them into the ring at token+1?


Join them at token+10 just to leave a little space.  Make sure you're using
LOCAL_QUORUM for your queries instead of regular QUORUM.


 

 ** **

 All keyspaces are set to the replication strategy of SimpleStrategy.  Can
 I change the replication strategy after joining the new nodes in the DR to
 NetworkTopologyStategy with the updated replication factor for each dr?


Switch your keyspaces over to NetworkTopologyStrategy before adding the new
nodes.  For the strategy options, just list the first dc until the second
is up (e.g. {main_dc: 3}).


 

 ** **

 Lastly, is changing snitch from default of SimpleSnitch to
 RackInferringSnitch going to cause any issues?  Since its in the
 Cassandra.yaml file I assume a rolling restart to pick up the value would
 be ok?


This is the first thing you'll want to do.  Unless your node IPs would
naturally put all nodes in a DC in the same rack, I recommend using
PropertyFileSnitch, explicitly using the same rack.  (I tend to prefer
PFSnitch regardless; it's harder to accidentally mess up.)  A rolling
restart is required to pick up the change.  Make sure to fill out
cassandra-topology.properties first if using PFSnitch.


 

 ** **

 This is all on Cassandra 1.1.4, Thanks for any help!

 ** **

 ** **




-- 
Tyler Hobbs
DataStax http://datastax.com/