# Cannot Create A Cluster in Vmware ElasticSearch 5.6.5

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-a-cluster-in-vmware-elasticsearch-5-6-5/112243>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 18, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-a-cluster-in-vmware-elasticsearch-5-6-5/112243 "2017-12-18T14:02:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![shwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@shwan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shwan)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-a-cluster-in-vmware-elasticsearch-5-6-5/112243/1 "2017-12-18T14:02:41Z")

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Hello,  
Im trying to Create a Cluster between some virtual Machines inside Vmware. Elasticsaerch is running on both machines and i have changes the config files as but still no success. here are my config files:  
GES1  
[cluster.name](http://cluster.name): G  
[node.name](http://node.name): GES1  
network.host: 10.0.1.11  
http.port: 9200  
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["10.0.1.12", "10.0.1.11"]  
GES2  
[cluster.name](http://cluster.name): G  
[node.name](http://node.name): GES2  
network.host: 10.0.1.12  
http.port: 9200  
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["10.0.1.11", "10.0.1.12"]  
i checked the logs files and they can't discover each other  
I also disables firewall on both machines  
P.S Both machines can ping each other

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-a-cluster-in-vmware-elasticsearch-5-6-5/112243/2 "2017-12-18T14:15:45Z")

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Could you share the logs? Nothing looks wrong.

Make sure port 9300 is opened, like try to telnet on port 9300 from one machine to another.

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**Author:** ![shwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@shwan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shwan)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-a-cluster-in-vmware-elasticsearch-5-6-5/112243/3 "2017-12-18T14:40:33Z")

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[root@localhost elasticsearch]# telnet 10.0.1.12 9300  
Trying 10.0.1.12...  
telnet: connect to address 10.0.1.12: No route to host  
[root@localhost elasticsearch]#

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-a-cluster-in-vmware-elasticsearch-5-6-5/112243/4 "2017-12-18T14:59:44Z")

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So you need to fix that.

This is outside the scope of elasticsearch.  
But I believe that your VMs must expose public IPs somewhat. And that you should use those.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-a-cluster-in-vmware-elasticsearch-5-6-5/112243/5 "2018-01-15T14:59:44Z")

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