Currently if two clusters with different names are run on the same physical machine, an error message is given in the log of the second cluster started:

Tangosol Coherence AE 3.2/365 (RC3) <Error> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): This member could not join
the cluster because of a configuration mismatch between this member and the configuration being used by
the rest of the cluster.
This member specified a cluster name of "first_cluster" which did not match the name of the running cluster.
This indicates that there are multiple clusters on this network attempting to use overlapping network
configurations.

It would be useful if multiple clusters could be started on the one physical machine:

• for testing clusters.
• for customers who use multiple virtual machines (as in VM ware, not as in JVMs) to form clusters on the one virtual machine.