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http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/1.2/webhelp/index.html#cassandra/operations/ops_add_dc_to_cluster_t.html

This is a basic outline.


On 09/18/2013 10:32 AM, Juan Manuel Formoso wrote:
> I really like this idea. I can create a new cluster and have it replicate
> the old one, after it finishes I can remove the original.
>
> Any good resource that explains how to add a new datacenter to a live
> single dc cluster that anybody can recommend?
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Chris Burroughs
> <chris.burroughs@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 09/17/2013 09:41 PM, Paulo Motta wrote:
>>
>>> So you're saying the only feasible way of enabling VNodes on an upgraded
>>> C*
>>> 1.2 is by doing fork writes to a brand new cluster + bulk load of sstables
>>> from the old cluster? Or is it possible to succeed on shuffling, even if
>>> that means waiting some weeks for the shuffle to complete?
>>>
>>
>> In a multi "DC" cluster situation you *should* be able to bring up a new
>> DC with vnodes, bootstrap it, and then decommission the old cluster.
>>
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