Pre build AMI here http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/setting-up-a-cassandra-cluster-with-the-datastax-ami
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 4 Aug 2011, at 03:24, Jeremy Hanna wrote: > Some quick thoughts that might be helpful: > > - use ephemeral instances and RAID0 over the local volumes for both > cassandra's data as well as the log directory. The log directory because if > you crash due to heap size, the heap dump will be stored in the log > directory. you don't want that to go in your root/OS partition. > > - probably want to stripe across AZs so that a single AZ failure doesn't > affect you as much. > > - for seeds, it's nice to use elastic ips so that your seed configuration > doesn't have to change if a node is replaced. > > - the ec2snitch makes it so each AZ appears as a rack wrt topology - simpler > as it inspects the ec2 metadata. if you need more than one DC in your > cluster (we need a second virtual DC for analytics), you'll probably want to > use the property file snitch. there's a cross region ec2snitch that's coming > in 1.0. > > would probably be good to add some ec2 specific tips in the wiki. the page > that dave mentioned is a good step-by-step, but there's been a lot of > community knowledge accumulated about best practices in the year since that > was done. > > On Aug 3, 2011, at 8:28 AM, Eldad Yamin wrote: > >> Hi, >> Is there any manual or important notes I should know before I try to install >> Cassandra on EC2? >> >> Thanks! >
