6.4.3. The rebalancingEnabled Attribute
Suppressing rebalancing can only be triggered via the
rebalancingEnabled
JMX attribute, and requires no specific configuration.
The
rebalancingEnabled
attribute can be modified for the entire cluster from the LocalTopologyManager
JMX Mbean on any node. This attribute is true
by default, and is configurable programmatically.
Servers such as Hot Rod attempt to start all caches declared in the configuration during startup. If rebalancing is disabled, the cache will fail to start. Therefore, it is mandatory to use the following setting in a server environment:
<await-initial-transfer="false"/>