Starting DataStax Enterprise as a stand-alone process

Starting the DataStax Enterprise process when DataStax Enterprise was installed from the DataStax Installer with the No Services option or from a tarball.

If running a mixed-workload cluster (one or more data centers for each type of node), determine which nodes to start as Analytics, Cassandra, and Search nodes. Begin with the seed nodes first — Analytics seed node, followed by the Cassandra seed node — then start the remaining nodes in the cluster one at a time. For additional information, see Multiple data center deployment.

Attention: Do not start all the nodes at once, because this causes contention among nodes to become the jobtracker.

Procedure

From the install directory:
- Cassandra node: $ bin/dse cassandra
- BYOH node:$ bin/dse cassandra
- DSE Hadoop node: $ bin/dse cassandra -t
- Solr node: $ bin/dse cassandra -s
- Spark only node: $ bin/dse cassandra -k
- Spark + DSE Hadoop $ bin/dse cassandra -k -t
Start the DataStax agent:
```
$ ./datastax-agent/bin/datastax-agent
```
To check that your ring is up and running:
```
$ cd install_location
$ bin/nodetool status
```
If you are running an analytics node, there are several methods for designating the job tracker node.