Re: Moving Cassandra from EC2 Classic into VPC

2014-09-09 Thread Nate McCall
We've done this several times with clients - Ben's response will work and is pretty close to the approaches we took: Use the gossiping property file snitch in the VPC data centre. Agree. I don't think you could even do this effectively with the EC2Snitch. Use a public elastic ip for each

Re: Moving Cassandra from EC2 Classic into VPC

2014-09-09 Thread Janne Jalkanen
Alain Rodriguez outlined this procedure that he was going to try, but failed to mention whether this actually worked :-) https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-cassandra-user/201406.mbox/%3cca+vsrlopop7th8nx20aoz3as75g2jrjm3ryx119deklynhq...@mail.gmail.com%3E /Janne On 8 Sep

Moving Cassandra from EC2 Classic into VPC

2014-09-08 Thread Oleg Dulin
Dear Colleagues: I need to move Cassandra from EC2 classic into VPC. What I was thinking is that I can create a new data center within VPC and rebuild it from my existing one (switching to vnodes while I am at it). However, I don't understand how the ec2-snitch will deal with this. Another

Re: Moving Cassandra from EC2 Classic into VPC

2014-09-08 Thread Bram Avontuur
I have setup Cassandra into VPC with the EC2Snitch and it works without issues. I didn't need to do anything special to the configuration. I have created instances in 2 availability zones, and it automatically picks it up as 2 different data racks. Just make sure your nodes can see each other in

Re: Moving Cassandra from EC2 Classic into VPC

2014-09-08 Thread Oleg Dulin
I get that, but if you read my opening post, I have an existing cluster in EC2 classic that I have no idea how to move to VPC cleanly. On 2014-09-08 19:52:28 +, Bram Avontuur said: I have setup Cassandra into VPC with the EC2Snitch and it works without issues. I didn't need to do

Re: Moving Cassandra from EC2 Classic into VPC

2014-09-08 Thread Ben Bromhead
On 8 Sep 2014, at 12:34 pm, Oleg Dulin oleg.du...@gmail.com wrote: Another idea I had was taking the ec2-snitch configuration and converting it into a Property file snitch. But I still don't understand how to perform this move since I need my newly created VPC instances to have public IPs --