I tried to replace our memcached servers with Infinispan Server to get replication/distribution features for our services.

Using the clustered-memcached.xml example configuration I can easily run Infinispan Servers on multiple hosts, but the problem is that the auto discovery/multicast feature will find all Infinispan Server instances on the whole network, meaning it will join all our stages (test, qa, production) together to a single cluster ... which is obviously not what anybody wants.

Is there an example on how I can define cluster members by IP/port without any UDP multicast discovery magic? The documentation has zero content about isolating clusters.

I already tried:

<stacks default="tcp">

   <stack name="tcp">

   <transport type="TCP" socket-binding="jgroups-tcp"/>
   <protocol type="TCPPING">

   <property name="initial_hosts">192.168.10.13[7600]</property> <!-- still adds cluster member 192.168.10.12 -->

   <property name="port_range">0</property>

   </protocol>
   <protocol type="MERGE3"/>

but still instances with other non-configured IPs automaticall join the same cluster.

How can I properly and safely isolate clusters in the same network?

UPDATE:

removing <protocol type="UNICAST3"/> from the stack seems to help even though this has nothing to do with finding cluster members if I understood the JGroups docs correctly???