# Multinode cluster setup

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/multinode-cluster-setup/1642>\
**Category:** Installation\
**Created:** [August 14, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/multinode-cluster-setup/1642 "2015-08-14T21:54:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![mohitanchlia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@mohitanchlia](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/mohitanchlia)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/multinode-cluster-setup/1642/1 "2015-08-14T21:54:23Z")

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Is there a documentation on how to install in multi node cluster? I see the install for one node on the site but it doesn’t have any information on how to configure multiple nodes to setup a cluster. Also, we can’t use multicast.

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**Author:** ![lucien](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/lucien/32/2065_2.png) [@lucien](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/lucien)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/multinode-cluster-setup/1642/2 "2015-08-15T00:01:09Z")

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Multinode cluster is simple with either mesh config of multicast.

For a mesh config, you have to configure the network heartbeat stanza with the mesh seed IP addresses for the other nodes in the cluster. The nodes will form a cluster after sending the hearbeat over port 3002.

Please see the following for a more detail info:

[http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/configure/network/heartbeat/#mesh-unicast-heartbeat](http://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/configure/network/heartbeat/#mesh-unicast-heartbeat)

```
heartbeat {
mode mesh # Send heartbeats using Mesh (Unicast) protocol
address 192.168.1.100 # (Optional) (Default: any) IP of the NIC on
                            # which this node is listening to heartbeat
port 3002 # port on which this node is listening to
                            # heartbeat
mesh-seed-address-port 192.168.1.100 3002 # IP address for seed node in the cluster
                                          # This IP happens to be the local node
mesh-seed-address-port 192.168.1.101 3002 # IP address for seed node in the cluster
mesh-seed-address-port 192.168.1.102 3002 # IP address for seed node in the cluster
mesh-seed-address-port 192.168.1.103 3002 # IP address for seed node in the cluster

interval 150 # Number of milliseconds between heartbeats
timeout 10 # Number of heartbeat intervals to wait before
                            # timing out a node

```

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