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DSE 6.0 Administrator Guide (EOSL)

Getting started
Information about using DataStax Enterprise for Administrators.
Release notes
Release notes for DataStax Enterprise.
Installing
DataStax Enterprise 6.0 can be installed in a number of ways, depending on the purpose of the installation, the type of operating system, and the available permissions.
Configuration
Information about configuring DataStax Enterprise, such as recommended production setting, configuration files, snitch configuration, start-up parameters, heap dump settings, using virtual nodes, and more.
Initializing a cluster
Initializing a DataStax Enterprise (DSE) cluster includes configuring, and choosing how the data is divided across the nodes in the cluster.
Security
DataStax Enterprise 6.0 Security Guide.
DSE advanced functionality
Information on using DSE Analytics, DSEFS, DSE Search, DSE Graph, DSE Advanced Replication, DSE In-Memory, DSE Multi-Instance, DSE Tiered Storage and DSE Performance services.
- DSE Analytics
  DataStax Enterprise 6.0 Analytics includes integration with Apache Spark.
- DSE Search
  DSE Search allows you to quickly find data and provide a modern search experience for your users, helping you create features like product catalogs, document repositories, ad-hoc reporting engines, and more.
  - About DSE Search
    DSE Search simplifies using search applications for data stored in a database.
  - Configuring DSE Search
    DSE Search logging, search index configuration, reference information and so on.
  - Search performance tuning and monitoring
    Tune DSE Search in the event of performance degradation, high memory consumption, or other problems.
  - DSE Search operations
    You can run DSE Search on one or more nodes. Typical operations including configuration of nodes, policies, query routing, balancing loads, and communications.
    - Initial data migration
      Best practices and guidelines for loading data into DSE Search.
    - Shard routing for distributed queries
      On DSE Search nodes, the shard selection algorithm for distributed queries uses a series of criteria to route sub-queries to the nodes most capable of handling them.
    - Deleting a search index
      Steps to delete search index.
    - Verifying indexing status
      Steps to check the indexing status using dsetool, the Core Admin, or logs.
    - Backing up DSE Search data directories
      Steps to back up DSE Search data directories.
    - Restoring a search node from backup
      Steps to restore a search node from backup.
    - Monitoring DSE Search
      Information about metrics MBeans for DSE Search.
    - Uploading the search index schema and config
      Steps to upload a search index schema and config.
  - Solr interfaces
  - HTTP API SolrJ and other Solr clients
    Apache Solr clients work with DataStax Enterprise. DataStax has extended SolrJ to protect internal Solr communication and HTTP access using SSL.
- DSE Graph
  Documentation for developers and administrators on installing, configuring, and using the features and capabilities of DSE Graph.
- DSE Management Services
  DSE Management Services automatically handle administration and maintenance tasks and assist with overall database cluster management.
- DSE Advanced Replication
  Documentation for configuring and using configurable distributed data replication.
- DSE In-Memory
  DataStax Enterprise includes DSE In-Memory for storing data to and accessing data exclusively from memory.
- DSE Multi-Instance
  Documentation for running multiple DataStax Enterprise nodes on a single host machine.
- DSE Tiered Storage
  Documentation for automating smart data movement across different types of storage media.
Tools
Tools include dse commands, dsetool, fs-stress tool, pre-flight check, and yaml_diff tools, and the sstableloader.
Operations
DataStax Enterprise operation topics, such as node and datacenter operations, changing replication strategies, configuring compaction and compression, caching, and tuning Bloom filters.
Planning
Hardware selection, estimating disk capacity, anti-patterns, cluster testing and more.

Restoring a search node from backup

Steps to restore a search node from backup.

Reload data and rebuild the indexes as we load data.

Procedure

Use the DataStax Enterprise restore steps with indexing enabled and let the data write as data is coming in.

Use the OpsCenter .
Follow the steps in DSE Search initial data migration.

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