Hi Vasilis, With regards to Question 2.
* | How tokens are being assigned when adding a 2nd DC? Is the range -2^64 to 2^63 for each DC, or it is -2^64 to 2^63 for the entire cluster? (I think the latter is correct), * Have you been able to deduce an answer to this (assuming Murmur3 Partitioner) ? I'm facing the same problem and looking to do the latter (-2^64 to 2^63 for the entire cluster) given how nodetool repair isn't multi-dc aware in ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2609) Unfortunately the documentation ( http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/1.2/cassandra/configuration/configGenTokens_c.html) isn't quite clear ("Multiple data center deployments: calculate the tokens for each data center so that the hash range is evenly divided for the nodes in each data center.") Thanks Matt On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Vasileios Vlachos < vasileiosvlac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for your responses, Ben thanks for the link. > > Basically you sort of confirmed that if down_time > max_hint_window_in_ms > the only way to bring DC1 up-to-date is anti-entropy repair. Read > consistency level is irrelevant to the problem I described as I am reading > LOCAL_QUORUM. In this situation I lost whatever data -if any- had not been > transfered across to DC2 before DC1 went down, that is understandable. > Also, read repair does not help either as we assumed that down_time > > max_hint_window_in_ms. Please correct me if I am wrong. > > I think I could better understand how that works if I knew the answers to > the following questions: > 1. What is the output of nodetool status when a cluster spans across 2 > DCs? Will I be able to see ALL nodes irrespective of the DC they belong to? > 2. How tokens are being assigned when adding a 2nd DC? Is the range -2^64 > to 2^63 for each DC, or it is -2^64 to 2^63 for the entire cluster? (I > think the latter is correct) > 3. Does the coordinator store 1 hint irrespective of how many replicas > happen to be down at the time and also irrespective of DC2 being down in > the scenario I described above? (I think the answer is according to the > presentation you sent me, but I would like someone to confirm that) > > Thank you in advance, > > Vasilis > > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Ben Bromhead <b...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > >> Short answer: >> >> If time elapsed > max_hint_window_in_ms then hints will stop being >> created. You will need to rely on your read consistency level, read repair >> and anti-entropy repair operations to restore consistency. >> >> Long answer: >> >> >> http://www.slideshare.net/jasedbrown/understanding-antientropy-in-cassandra >> >> Ben Bromhead >> Instaclustr | www.instaclustr.com | @instaclustr >> <http://twitter.com/instaclustr> | +61 415 936 359 >> >> On 30 May 2014, at 8:40 am, Tupshin Harper <tups...@tupshin.com> wrote: >> >> When one node or DC is down, coordinator nodes being written through will >> notice this fact and store hints (hinted handoff is the mechanism), and >> those hints are used to send the data that was not able to be replicated >> initially. >> >> http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/modern-hinted-handoff >> >> -Tupshin >> On May 29, 2014 6:22 PM, "Vasileios Vlachos" <vasileiosvlac...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> We have plans to add a second DC to our live Cassandra environment. >> Currently RF=3 and we read and write at QUORUM. After adding DC2 we are >> going to be reading and writing at LOCAL_QUORUM. >> >> If my understanding is correct, when a client sends a write request, if >> the consistency level is satisfied on DC1 (that is RF/2+1), success is >> returned to the client and DC2 will eventually get the data as well. The >> assumption behind this is that the the client always connects to DC1 for >> reads and writes and given that there is a site-to-site VPN between DC1 and >> DC2. Therefore, DC1 will almost always return success before DC2 (actually >> I don't know if it is possible for DC2 to be more up-to-date than DC1 with >> this setup...). >> >> Now imagine DC1 looses connectivity and the client fails over to DC2. >> Everything should work fine after that, with the only difference that DC2 >> will be now handling the requests directly from the client. After some >> time, say after max_hint_window_in_ms, DC1 comes back up. My question is >> how do I bring DC1 up to speed with DC2 which is now more up-to-date? Will >> that require a nodetool repair on DC1 nodes? Also, what is the answer >> when the outage is < max_hint_window_in_ms instead? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Vasilis >> >> -- >> Kind Regards, >> >> Vasileios Vlachos >> >> >> >