Cluster Setup

Operations Configuration
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I have setup 2 default aerospike server which should run in a cluster by using multicast. The multicast itself works correct but the server does not connect to a cluster.

Is there anything that I can check?

marcel

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The cluster should form if multicast is working properly.

How did you verify whether the multicast is working properly?

I tend to use iperf to test multicast. iperf allows you to run multicast clients and servers, and will tell you if the messages have been sent and received.

Here is a decent tutorial on iperf:

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Hi Chris,

based on your suggestion to use iperf, it looks like ours servers have a general problem with multicast.

Thanks for the help. Marcel

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We tend to recommend using mtools over iperf, mtools will can generate multicast bursts which some switches perform poorly against. Since each server is sending a multicast heartbeat every N seconds, our use of multicast tends to be more bursty.

You can find instructions here: http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/troubleshoot/cluster/#validate-multicast

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thanks. we have the multicast problem solved. now the cluster works correctly. are there calculations about the performance of a cluster against a single node? for example, a 2 server cluster with a replication of 2 can handle the half TPS of a single node with replication 1?

thx marcel

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Hi Marcel,

We typically do not recommend any performance benchmark/calculations based on a single node cluster except for comparing another single node cluster.

We recommend always starting with at least 2 nodes for any benchmark / extrapolation for larger clusters.

Having said that, in theory, assuming the network between the nodes keeps up, and for a pure write workload, a 2 node cluster should be able to perform similarly to a 1 node cluster since with replication factor 2, there will be twice as much to do with twice as many nodes.