In the previous post, we reviewed the preparation steps necessary for the installation of Cassandra for use with vCloud Availability. In this post we will complete the deployment by showing the steps necessary to install Cassandra and then configure Cassandra for secure communication as well as clustering the 3 nodes. This post assumes basic proficiency with the ‘vi’ text editor.
Installing & Configuring Cassandra
For this example, the Datastax version of Cassandra will be deployed. To prepare the server for Cassandra, create the datastax.repo file in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory with the following command:
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/datastax.repo
Then input the Datastax repo details in to the file.
[datastax] name = DataStax Repo for Apache Cassandra baseurl = https://rpm.datastax.com/community enabled = 1 gpgcheck = 0
Once the repo details have been correctly entered, press the ESC key, type :wq! to write and exit the file.