If you don't care about preserving the old data, the steps to re-install would be very similar to the initial install. You will have to delete the existing zookeeper namespace and then set up the new cluster to point to it. Alternatively, you can just use a new zookeeper namespace and treat it like a fresh installation. Are you trying to do this while clients are still talking to the older cluster? In that case, you can do this differently by replacing one broker at a time. The way to do that would be to shut down Kafka on the old machine and restart it with the same broker id on the new machine. Then let it catch up and do the same on the remaining brokers.
Thanks, Neha On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Shaikh Ahmed <rnsr.sha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We have Kafka version 0.8.1 cluster installed on our 11 servers. we would > like to discard the entire cluster and do the re-installation. > > Please help me with the steps to achieve this exercise. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Riyaz >
