Running multiple instances on a single machine

Clone CCM (Cassandra Cluster Manager)

mkdir -p /home/hadoop/AdithyaJ/Cassandra
cd /home/hadoop/AdithyaJ/Cassandra

git clone https://github.com/riptano/ccm.git
cd ccm

Fire up a 3 node Cassandra cluster

./setup.py install
ccm create test -v 3.0.16 -n 3 -s

Check that the cluster is correctly set up

ccm node1 ring

Datacenter: datacenter1
==========
Address    Rack        Status State   Load            Owns                Token
                                                                          3074457345618258602
127.0.0.1  rack1       Up     Normal  64.67 KB        66.67%              -9223372036854775808
127.0.0.2  rack1       Up     Normal  64.67 KB        66.67%              -3074457345618258603
127.0.0.3  rack1       Up     Normal  82.12 KB        66.67%              3074457345618258602