After you install and configure DataStax Enterprise on one or more nodes, start your cluster beginning with the seed nodes. In a mixed-workload DataStax Enterprise cluster, you must start the analytics seed node first.

Packaged installations include start-up and stop scripts for running DataStax Enterprise as a service. Binary tarballs do not.

Starting DataStax Enterprise as a service Steps for starting the DataStax Enterprise service when DataStax Enterprise was installed from a RHEL or Debian package with the Services option.

Starting DataStax Enterprise as a stand-alone process Steps for starting the DataStax Enterprise process when DataStax Enterprise was installed from a tarball with the No Services option.

Stopping a DataStax Enterprise node Stopping DataStax Enterprise on a node.