Aerospike cluster - node size is still 1

Operations Configuration
1

I am trying to setup aerospike cluster. Here are the below configs i made in aerospike.conf,

  1. added multicast heartbeats Node 1:
 heartbeat {
                mode multicast
                multicast-group 239.1.99.222
                #address        10.0.0.38
                port 9918

                # To use unicast-mesh heartbeats, remove the 3 lines above, and see
                # aerospike_mesh.conf for alternative.

                interval 300
                timeout 10
        }
cluster {
        mode static
        self-group-id 100
        self-node-id  102
}
service {
paxos-protocol v4
}

Node 2:

 heartbeat {
                mode multicast
                multicast-group 239.1.99.222
                port 9918
                #address 10.0.0.37
                # To use unicast-mesh heartbeats, remove the 3 lines above, and see
                # aerospike_mesh.conf for alternative.

                interval 300
                timeout 10
        }
cluster {
        mode static
        self-group-id 100
        self-node-id  101
}
service {
paxos-protocol v4
}

In both the server logs,

Node 1 log
Apr 02 2017 03:01:31 GMT: INFO (info): (ticker.c:170) NODE-ID bb9006400000065 CLUSTER-SIZE 1
Node 2 log:
Apr 02 2017 03:01:51 GMT: INFO (info): (ticker.c:170) NODE-ID bb9006400000066 CLUSTER-SIZE 1

I don’t see my cluster having node size 2. Please help me debug this.

2

Have you tried mesh? Also I think you need address defined. If there is only 1 ip on the box you can use: address any

3

it was recommended to use multicast across. so i did not try with mesh. Let me define the address.

4

Still after defining address any, the cluster size is 1.

5

If mesh is failing there should be a distinct log entry indicating failures. Can you post a snippet

6

Mesh is fine. Apr 02 2017 16:47:43 GMT: INFO (info): (ticker.c:170) NODE-ID bb9006400000065 CLUSTER-SIZE 2 Apr 02 2017 16:47:46 GMT: INFO (info): (ticker.c:170) NODE-ID bb9006400000066 CLUSTER-SIZE 2

Able to see that both the nodes are able to communicate

7

Mesh doesn’t really have any downsides. My guess is something in your network blocking or not configured for multicast. I’d suggest you just use mesh unless you have a strong need/use case for multicast

8

okay cool. Then I will move on with the mesh setup. Thank you Albot.

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