Installing the DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra 3.x for Windows

About installing on Windows systems.

DataStax no longer provides the DataStax Community version of Apache Cassandra™ or the DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra. See the Documentation maintenance statement.
To download and install the latest version of open-source Cassandra, see https://cassandra.apache.org/.
Attention: OpsCenter is not supported or installed with Apache Cassandra 3.0 2.2 and later.

Prerequisites

Note: From Windows PowerShell, set the execution policy to unrestricted from an elevated command-prompt:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Procedure

  1. Download the Windows MSI installer for your platform from Apache Cassandra.
    Note: 32-bit systems are for development only.
  2. Follow the setup wizard to install.

    The installation wizard lets you set up the Datastax services to start automatically when the installation completes, and whenever the computer reboots. If you select this option, the services start automatically – you can skip the next step.

  3. If you did not elect to have Datastax services start automatically, start Cassandra by entering the following: 
    C:\> net start DataStax_DDC_Server
    CASSANDRA_HOME
    Windows 3.0 installations C:\Program Files\Datastax Community\apache-cassandra\
    Windows 3.x installations C:\Program Files\Datastax-DDC\apache-cassandra\
    On a standard Windows installation, the installation wizard creates %CASSANDRA_HOME% as an environment variable.
  4. To verify that DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra 3.x for Windows is running, use the nodetool status command:
    For example:
    C:\> %CASSANDRA_HOME%\bin\nodetool status
    Datacenter: datacenter1
========================
Status=Up/Down
|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
--  Address     Load      Tokens       Owns    Host ID
     Rack
UN  127.0.0.1  133.97 KB  256          ?       16e04c6b-5d43-4372-9e71-7acdcaa023bc  rack1

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