Ignition.start is supposed to start an Ignite instance, so passing spring-cache.xml file that doesn't contain any Ignite configuration doesn't make sense. The SpringCacheManager bean should be part of the Spring Application Context, it then will be used as an entry point to Ignite cluster. It looks like you're using annotation based config for Spring, so that's where you need to configure the bean. I believe you don't need this second XML at all.
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