Hi, I know that adding a new vnode enabled DC is the recommended method to convert and existing cluster to vnode. And that the cassandra-shuffle utility has been removed.
That said, I've done some testing and it appears to be possible to
perform an in place conversion as long as all nodes contain all data (3
nodes and replication factor 3 for example) like this:
for each node:
- nodetool -h localhost disablegossip (Not sure if this is needed)
- cqlsh localhost
UPDATE system.local SET tokens=$NEWTOKENS WHERE key='local';
- nodetool -h localhost disablethrift (Not sure if this is needed)
- nodetool -h localhost drain
- service cassandra restart
And the following python snippet was used to generate $NEWTOKENS for
each node (RandomPartitioner):
"""
import random
print str([str(x) for x in sorted(random.randint(0,2**127-1) for x in
range(256))]).replace('[', '{').replace(']', '}')
"""
I've tested this in a test cluster and it seems to work just fine.
Has anyone else done anything similar?
Or if manually changing tokens is impossible and something horrible will
hit me down the line?
Test cluster configuration
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Cassandra version: 1.2.19
Number of nodes: 3
Keyspace: NetworkTopologyStrategy: {DC1: 1, DC2:1, DC3: 1}
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