Load Balancing and Load Sharing

Initial Cluster

• 6 Nodes

nodetool status
Datacenter: dc1
===============
Status=Up/Down
|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
--  Address          Load       Tokens       Owns (effective)  Host ID                               Rack
UN  206.189.128.248  1.53 GiB   256          66.8%             6e4a03e2-4520-4f23-98d5-c9c90fa7622e  rack1
UN  159.89.164.94    1.57 GiB   256          67.9%             cc4ee14e-0561-45e8-acac-00dd58467e89  rack1
UN  159.89.167.98    1.49 GiB   256          65.4%             1d31b63a-989e-40a5-b5f1-dc1b00d72243  rack1
Datacenter: dc2
===============
Status=Up/Down
|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
--  Address          Load       Tokens       Owns (effective)  Host ID                               Rack
UN  159.65.159.5     1.53 GiB   256          66.5%             914c09a7-d02c-4bc5-9804-8a2c9e60fab7  rack1
UN  159.65.144.109   1.53 GiB   256          66.4%             48bb478f-0ef0-44fd-91c7-f1a48e1ac60c  rack1
UN  139.59.30.118    1.53 GiB   256          67.0%             7f94828d-cc42-444c-b15d-ca45d339b31f  rack1

Adding a node

• 7 Nodes

Datacenter: dc1
===============
Status=Up/Down
|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
--  Address          Load       Tokens       Owns (effective)  Host ID                               Rack
UN  206.189.128.248  1.53 GiB   256          66.8%             6e4a03e2-4520-4f23-98d5-c9c90fa7622e  rack1
UN  159.89.164.94    1.57 GiB   256          67.9%             cc4ee14e-0561-45e8-acac-00dd58467e89  rack1
UN  159.89.167.98    1.49 GiB   256          65.4%             1d31b63a-989e-40a5-b5f1-dc1b00d72243  rack1
Datacenter: dc2
===============
Status=Up/Down
|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
--  Address          Load       Tokens       Owns (effective)  Host ID                               Rack
UN  159.65.159.5     1.54 GiB   256          49.1%             914c09a7-d02c-4bc5-9804-8a2c9e60fab7  rack1
UN  206.189.136.37   1.19 GiB   256          51.2%             79bb125a-dd1a-4c03-88a1-4b9f178a1b0a  rack1
UN  159.65.144.109   1.54 GiB   256          51.0%             48bb478f-0ef0-44fd-91c7-f1a48e1ac60c  rack1
UN  139.59.30.118    1.55 GiB   256          48.7%             7f94828d-cc42-444c-b15d-ca45d339b31f  rack1

Removing a node

• 6 Nodes

nodetool status
Datacenter: dc1
===============
Status=Up/Down
|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
--  Address          Load       Tokens       Owns (effective)  Host ID                               Rack
UN  206.189.128.248  1.53 GiB   256          66.8%             6e4a03e2-4520-4f23-98d5-c9c90fa7622e  rack1
UN  159.89.164.94    1.57 GiB   256          67.9%             cc4ee14e-0561-45e8-acac-00dd58467e89  rack1
UN  159.89.167.98    1.49 GiB   256          65.4%             1d31b63a-989e-40a5-b5f1-dc1b00d72243  rack1
Datacenter: dc2
===============
Status=Up/Down
|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
--  Address          Load       Tokens       Owns (effective)  Host ID                               Rack
UN  159.65.159.5     1.94 GiB   256          66.5%             914c09a7-d02c-4bc5-9804-8a2c9e60fab7  rack1
UN  159.65.144.109   1.89 GiB   256          66.4%             48bb478f-0ef0-44fd-91c7-f1a48e1ac60c  rack1
UN  139.59.30.118    1.96 GiB   256          67.0%             7f94828d-cc42-444c-b15d-ca45d339b31f  rack1