rayhassan

couchbase sizing/capacity planing

refs:

http://blog.couchbase.com/how-many-nodes-part-1-introduction-sizing-couchbase-server-20-cluster

5 key factors:

RAM
Disk

rayhassan

]# rpm -ivh couchbase-server-enterprise-3.1.0-centos6.x86_64.rpm
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Warning: Transparent hugepages looks to be active and should not be.
Please look at http://bit.ly/1hTySfg as for how to PERMANENTLY alter this setting.
Warning: Swappiness is not set to 0.
Please look at http://bit.ly/1hTySfg as for how to PERMANENTLY alter this setting.
Minimum RAM required  : 4 GB
System RAM configured : 15.52 GB

rayhassan

refrences:
https://dzone.com/articles/cassandra-design-best-practices
https://www.datastax.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/WP-DataStax-Enterprise-Best-Practices.pdf
https://docs.datastax.com/en/dse/5.1/dse-admin/datastax_enterprise/config/configRecommendedSettings.html

As regards tips/advice then bear in mind most of this will apply to the Guest OS running Cassandra 

run noop scheduler

set OS limits

rayhassan

Docker Hub hosted backend (for test/qa)
=======================================

o create dicovery token

# sid=$(docker run swarm create)
# echo $sid
d3e9cb54c894a7e3ae4c21145b9194bb

rayhassan

http://cloud-mechanic.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/storage-concepts-in-docker.html
http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/09/30/overview-storage-scalability-docker/
https://docs.docker.com/

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/docker-explained-how-to-containerize-python-web-applications

http://blog.flux7.com/blogs/docker/docker-tutorial-series-part-1-an-introduction
http://blog.flux7.com/blogs/docker/docker-tutorial-series-part-2-the-15-commands
http://blog.flux7.com/blogs/docker/docker-tutorial-series-part-3-automation-is-the-word-using-dockerfile