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Ignite Multi Node

Prerequisites#

  • 3 VMs (Ensure pre-requisites like SELinux disabled, firewall off, THP disabled, etc.)
  • Java 11 or higher
  • Enough RAM for data
  • Network connectivity

Ignite Installation#

Download tar file from apache ignite

Download ignite 2 bin file from https://ignite.apache.org/download.cgi
unzip apache-ignite-2.8.1-bin

Set following properties

export IGNITE_JMX_PORT=9999
#ignite global index inline size in bytes
#default is 10
export IGNITE_MAX_INDEX_PAYLOAD_SIZE=100

#Set the following in bin/ignite.sh
JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xms8g -Xmx8g -server -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:+ScavengeBeforeFullGC -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=2048m"

Setup igniteconfig.xml

Copy the following xml in ignitework directory
wget https://github.com/manish-chet/BigDataSetupfiles/tree/main/ignite/config
Change the hosts on specific server

start the node

nohup ignite.sh config/igniteconfig.xml > out.log 2>&1 &

Check the node using baseline

[ignite@hostname ~]$ control.sh --baseline
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.apache.ignite.internal.util.GridUnsafe$2 (file:/home/ignite/apache-ignite-2.8.1-bin/libs/ignite-core-2.8.1.jar) to field java.nio.Buffer.address
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.apache.ignite.internal.util.GridUnsafe$2
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
Control utility [ver. 2.8.1#20200521-sha1:86422096]
2020 Copyright(C) Apache Software Foundation
User: ignite
Time: 2025-05-29T19:11:31.029058
Command [BASELINE] started
Arguments: --baseline
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Cluster state: active
Current topology version: 3
Baseline auto adjustment enabled: softTimeout=0
Baseline auto-adjust are not scheduled
Current topology version: 3 (Coordinator: ConsistentId=ign01, Order=1)
Baseline nodes:
ConsistentId=ign01, State=ONLINE, Order=1
ConsistentId=ign02, State=ONLINE, Order=3
ConsistentId=ign03, State=ONLINE, Order=2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of baseline nodes: 3
Other nodes not found.
Command [BASELINE] finished with code: 0
Control utility has completed execution at: 2025-05-29T19:11:31.295162
Execution time: 266 ms