Does 360 count? :-) num_tokens is 16, works fine (had 256 on a 300 node cluster as well, not too many problems either). Roughly 2.5TB per node, running on-prem on reasonably stable hardware so replacements end up happening once a week at most, and there's no particular change needed in the automation. Scaling up or down takes a while, but it doesn't appear to be slower than any other cluster. Configuration wise it's no different than a 5-node cluster either. Pretty uneventful tbh.
Tom van der Woerdt Senior Site Reliability Engineer Booking.com BV Vijzelstraat Amsterdam Netherlands 1017HL [image: Booking.com] <https://www.booking.com/> Making it easier for everyone to experience the world since 1996 43 languages, 214+ offices worldwide, 141,000+ global destinations, 29 million reported listings Subsidiary of Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG) On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 8:58 AM Gediminas Blazys <gediminas.bla...@microsoft.com.invalid> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I wanted to seek out your opinion and experience. > > > > Has anyone of you had a chance to run a Cassandra cluster of more than 350 > nodes? > > What are the major configuration considerations that you had to focus on? > What number of vnodes did you use? > > Once the cluster was up and running what would you have done differently? > > Perhaps it would be more manageable to run multiple smaller clusters? Did > you try this approach? What were the major challenges? > > > > I don’t know if questions like that are allowed here but I’m really > interested in what other folks ran into while running massive operations. > > > > Gediminas > > >