October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
The most obvious way to trim resources is to remove nodes from the cluster. Sometimes, nodes may need to be removed after crashing on their own. In a cloud environment built with efficient DevOps processes, it is often much faster to re-provision a troublesome node than it is to spend time resurrecting it. There are two nodetool commands used to remove nodes from a cluster: nodetool decommission and nodetool removenode. These will be discussed based on their use cases (live node versus dead node) in the following section.