Deploy Cassandra on a Google Axion C4A virtual machine

About this Learning Path

Who is this for?

This is an introductory topic for software developers migrating Cassandra workloads from x86_64 to Arm-based servers, specifically on Google Cloud C4A virtual machines built on Axion processors.

What will you learn?

Upon completion of this Learning Path, you will be able to:

• Provision an Arm-based SUSE SLES virtual machine on Google Cloud (C4A with Axion processors)
• Install and configure Apache Cassandra on a SUSE Arm64 (C4A) instance
• Validate Cassandra functionality using CQLSH and baseline keyspace/table operations
• Benchmark Cassandra performance using cassandra-stress for read and write workloads on Arm64 (Aarch64) architecture

Prerequisites

Before starting, you will need the following:

• A Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account with billing enabled
• Familiarity with Cassandra architecture, replication, and Cassandra partitioning and event-driven I/O