Create Cache

Once you have installed NCache and the service is running, you can proceed to create caches and clusters to begin caching.

NCache Manager

• Select File ->New ->Clustered Cache option.

  

• New Clustered cache wizard will open. Specify the name of the cache, select Data Format and click Next.

  

Important

Cache with the specified name should not exist on the server; otherwise you get an error message that this cache already exists on this server.

• In Select caching topology dialog, select the required cache topology. You can also change the Operation timeout (sec.) and Statistic replication interval (sec.) under the Advanced cluster options.

• Specify the desired information and click Next.

  

• If you selected the Partition Replica Cache topology, you have to select a Replication Strategy, either Asynchronous or Synchronous.

• Click Next.

  

• Specify the node IP address in text box or select from the Network Neighborhood and click on the > button to add it in the Selected Nodes list.

• Click Next once all the required nodes are added.

  

• Change the Cluster Port if required.

• Click Next.

  

• In the next dialog, you can change the cache size if required.

• Click Next.

  

• In Advanced options dialog, you can configure the following settings:

  • You can change the eviction policy. The eviction policy will be configured and can be turned on.

  • You can also change the eviction percentage; items will be evicted from the cache using this percentage value if eviction is enabled.

  • You can change the clean interval value. Default is 15 seconds.

  • This cache can be started automatically upon the completion of this process if you have checked the Start this cache on Finish checkbox on this dialog.

  • You can make the cache to start automatically after service restart by checking the checkbox Auto start this cache on service startup.

    

• Click Finish. Created cache will appear in Cache Explorer under Clustered Caches section.

  

Using Command Line Tool

• Open Command Prompt and go to the NCache tools directory: cd [InstallDir]/bin/tools.

• Using the createcache.exe tool, provide required information:

createcache.exe demoClusteredCache /s 20.200.21.95 /S 1024 /t mirror /C 7802

• This will create demoClusteredCache of mirror topology on server 20.200.21.95 with size 1024MB on port 7802.