I would look at http://www.slideshare.net/mattdennis/cassandra-on-ec2
Also, people generally do raid0 on the ephemerals. EBS is a bad fit for cassandra - see the presentation above. However, that means you'll need to have a backup strategy, which is also mentioned in the presentation. Also are you using the ec2snitch or the property file snitch? On Sep 3, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Ben Ashton wrote: > I've been dropped in it a little and had to build a prod setup going live on > monday. > > At the moment I have setup three server in EC2 US, one each AZ > > the servers are setup as follows:- > > m1.xlarge using the Amazons AMI instance storage image, the ephemerals 4 x > 420 GB setup in raid10 and formatted with xfs mounted as /cassandra with all > the cassandra data in /cassandra > > I've got the ring setup with 33% on each server. > > I imagine I'd need to setup some EBS cassandra servers and insert them in the > ring, so I have a persistence, would m.large be OK for this? > > I've been reading http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ and > http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/index but can anyone recommend a book I can > buy this weekend or another web source for best practice? > > What are the best ways to stress test? stress.java?
