[jira] Commented: (CASSANDRA-874) System tests against multiple nodes

["Peter Tillotson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Peter Tillotson commented on CASSANDRA-874:
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I think that this may already be largely possible via a virtual network, though it presents an ideal case. Libvirt on Linux allows you to set up virtual network interfaces on a given host so you could get multiple instances of Cassandra running on the same local hardware, one could probably simulate failing nodes.
see:  virsh --net-create for examples



> System tests against multiple nodes
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-874
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-874
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Test
>          Components: Tools
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
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> We have a system test suite (see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HowToContribute ) but it only runs against the local machine, which is suboptimal even if we didn't have a bunch of optimizations to make writes to a local node skip most of the messaging layer.
> We'd like to automate testing against a whole cluster.  Paul has some code using libcloud to do stress tests against an ephemeral rackspace cloud servers cluster at http://github.com/pquerna/ccb, which is probably useful as a starting point, but rather than running stress.py you'd want to put together a more comprehensive suite, based on the existing system tests but also explicitly covering things like range queries that span multiple nodes and failure conditions like Hinted Handoff (see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HintedHandoff ) and repair (http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureAntiEntropy ) resulting from deliberately disabling a node temporarily.
> Adding tests for ops tasks like http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations would be awesome too.
> Finally, CASSANDRA-561 might make something like this possible using a simulator instead of hardware-level virtualization, which would be both more convenient and less expensive.  But someone just dumped a huge zip in our laps w/o really trying to collaborate with us there, so if you want to try to resurrect that code or otherwise go that route, be more open about what you're doing. :)

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