I have two VMs, each hosting a Cassandra seed node. I wipe one VM to simulate a hardware failure. I reinstall Cassandra and add replace_address_first_boot the end of the cassandra-env.sh file (with my real ipaddress) JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Dcassandra.replace_address_first_boot=1.1.1.1" nodetool status on the other machine lists this machine as DN cassandra.yaml displays the default value of auto_bootstrap:… Read More Replace Cassandra seed node after hardware failure on same machine?