Start Hyper-Converged Database (HCD) as a standalone process

Start Hyper-Converged Database (HCD) as a standalone process when installed from a binary tarball.

All nodes in the cluster must have the same version of HCD installed from a binary tarball. Nodes might not be able to join the ring if they are running different versions of HCD or other Cassandra-based database distributions.

  1. If you are restarting a node, stop HCD before starting it again.

  2. Change to the directory where you installed HCD:

    cd /path/to/hcd
  3. Start HCD:

    bin/hcd cassandra
  4. If you need to start HCD on multiple nodes, repeat the previous steps on each node.

  5. Check the status of nodes in the cluster:

    bin/nodetool status

    Make sure all nodes report UN (Up/Normal):

    Result
    Datacenter: DC1
    ===============
    Status=Up/Down
    |/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
    --  Address    Load       Tokens  Owns (effective)  Host ID                               Rack
    UN  10.0.0.1   97.87 KiB  16      100.0%            e4b7eb22-31d0-43ed-95e0-97915efcf58d  RAC1

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