Hi, Consider using this approach, replacing nodes one by one: https://mrcalonso.com/2016/01/26/cassandra-instantaneous-in-place-node-replacement/
Regards, Kyrill ________________________________________ From: Leena Ghatpande <lghatpa...@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 10:24:24 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Best approach to Replace existing 8 smaller nodes in production cluster with New 8 nodes that are bigger in capacity, without a downtime Best approach to replace existing 8 smaller 8 nodes in production cluster with New 8 nodes that are bigger in capacity without a downtime We have 4 nodes each in 2 DC, and we want to replace these 8 nodes with new 8 nodes that are bigger in capacity in terms of RAM,CPU and Diskspace without a downtime. The RF is set to 3 currently, and we have 2 large tables with upto 70Million rows What would be the best approach to implement this - Add 1 New Node and Decomission 1 Old node at a time? - Add all New nodes to the cluster, and then decommission old nodes ? If we do this, can we still keep the RF=3 while we have 16 nodes at a point in the cluster before we start decommissioning? - How long do we wait in between adding a Node or decomissiing to ensure the process is complete before we proceed? - Any tool that we can use to monitor if the add/decomission node is done before we proceed to next Any other suggestion? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@cassandra.apache.org