Hi, in this page http://www.rabbitmq.com/clustering.html I can read how to create a cluster with two nodes on the same machine:<div><br></div><div>For example:<br></div><div><br></div><div><pre class="sourcecode">$ RABBITMQ_NODE_PORT=5672 RABBITMQ_NODENAME=rabbit rabbitmq-server -detached
$ RABBITMQ_NODE_PORT=5673 RABBITMQ_NODENAME=hare rabbitmq-server -detached
$ rabbitmqctl -n hare stop_app
$ rabbitmqctl -n hare join_cluster rabbit@`hostname -s`
$ rabbitmqctl -n hare start_app</pre><pre class="sourcecode"><br></pre><pre class="sourcecode">will set up a two node cluster with one disc node and one ram node.<br></pre><pre class="sourcecode"><br></pre><pre class="sourcecode">But in the man page of rabbitmqctl it states that the join_cluster command by default create a disc node.</pre><pre class="sourcecode"><br></pre><pre class="sourcecode">Cheers,</pre><pre class="sourcecode"> Carlo </pre></div>