Hi, An update :
when I set writeSynchronizationMode as FULL_SYNC, this is working now. [Seems like a work around, hoping to get a correct solution] Earlier cache store was getting executed even though I had never invoked its load method explicitly. Also one time, I got this message in the log: [2018-11-27T11:47:43,728][INFO ][tcp-disco-sock-reader-#5][TcpDiscoverySpi] Finished serving remote node connection [rmtAddr=/192.168.79.97:63949, rmtPort=63949 [2018-11-27T11:47:43,731][WARN ][grid-timeout-worker-#39][TcpDiscoverySpi] Socket write has timed out (consider increasing 'IgniteConfiguration.failureDetectionTimeout' configuration property) [failureDetectionTimeout=10000, rmtAddr=/192.168.79.97:63949, rmtPort=63949, sockTimeout=5000] [2018-11-27T11:48:13,729][WARN ][disco-event-worker-#61][GridDiscoveryManager] Node FAILED: TcpDiscoveryNode [id=dff2089b-1c8c-4077-8176-389d52241823, addrs=[0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1, 127.0.0.1, 192.168.79.97], sockAddrs=[SBSKKWSVM314.suntecsbs.com/192.168.79.97:0, /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:0, /127.0.0.1:0], discPort=0, order=3, intOrder=3, lastExchangeTime=1543299352342, loc=false, ver=2.6.0#20180710-sha1:669feacc, isClient=true] [2018-11-27T11:48:13,730][INFO ][disco-event-worker-#61][GridDiscoveryManager] Topology snapshot [ver=4, servers=2, clients=0, CPUs=32, offheap=29.0GB, heap=2.0GB] [2018-11-27T11:48:13,730][INFO ][disco-event-worker-#61][GridDiscoveryManager] ^-- Node [id=96FB77AE-5D5A-4D53-B40A-7DBB1A90E429, clusterState=ACTIVE] [2018-11-27T11:48:13,730][INFO ][disco-event-worker-#61][GridDiscoveryManager] ^-- Baseline [id=0, size=2, online=2, offline=0] [2018-11-27T11:48:13,730][INFO ][disco-event-worker-#61][GridDiscoveryManager] Data Regions Configured: [2018-11-27T11:48:13,731][INFO ][disco-event-worker-#61][GridDiscoveryManager] ^-- default [initSize=256.0 MiB, maxSize=6.3 GiB, persistenceEnabled=false] [2018-11-27T11:48:13,731][INFO ][disco-event-worker-#61][GridDiscoveryManager] ^-- defaultDataRegion [initSize=1.0 GiB, maxSize=8.0 GiB, persistenceEnabled=true] [2018-11-27T11:48:13,743][INFO ][exchange-worker-#62][time] Started exchange init [topVer=AffinityTopologyVersion [topVer=4, minorTopVer=0], crd=false, evt=NODE_FAILED, evtNode=dff2089b-1c8c-4077-8176-389d52241823, customEvt=null, allowMerge=true] [2018-11-27T11:48:13,744][INFO ][exchange-worker-#62][GridDhtPartitionsExchangeFuture] Finish exchange future [startVer=AffinityTopologyVersion [topVer=4, minorTopVer=0], resVer=AffinityTopologyVersion [topVer=4, minorTopVer=0], err=null] [2018-11-27T11:48:13,744][INFO ][exchange-worker-#62][time] Finished exchange init [topVer=AffinityTopologyVersion [topVer=4, minorTopVer=0], crd=false] [2018-11-27T11:48:13,757][INFO ][exchange-worker-#62][GridCachePartitionExchangeManager] Skipping rebalancing (nothing scheduled) [top=AffinityTopologyVersion [topVer=4, minorTopVer=0], evt=NODE_FAILED, node=dff2089b-1c8c-4077-8176-389d52241823] [2018-11-27T11:48:42,973][INFO ][grid-timeout-worker-#39][IgniteKernal] -- Sent from: http://apache-ignite-users.70518.x6.nabble.com/