Playing with Windows Server Appfabric Cache : Error creating cache - ErrorCode:SubStatus DataCacheException

Hi All

While I was playing around with the Windows Server App-Fabric Caching Service , I came across a very strange issue.

Well strange because what I was trying to do was one of the most basic things I could have done in App-Fabric - Creating  a new Cache in a recently configured Cache on AppFabric Component.

While I was trying to create a new cache though the App Fabric Cache Power-Shell Command-lets

 

 New-Cache -CacheName NewCache -Secondaries 1 -TimeToLive 15

 

Once I executed the command I came across an unexpected error :

 

  CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [NewCache], DataCacheExceptionFullyQualifiedErrorId : ERRPS009,Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.Commands.NewCacheCommand

 

Well there was hardly any information available in the error message through which I could have got any indicators towards what the error might be , one of the very informative trainig video helped me in finding the error.

 

The reason why I faced this error was because I was not connected to any network and the reason why the presence of a network is critical, is mentioned below :

The API's in the back-end that the Power-Shell command-lets uses , are basically the wrapper over the WCF based components that uses "NetTcpBinding"as a binding to communicate across the cluster ( cache server nodes).Hence the for the communication to happen the minimum requirement is to have a Network Adapter ( and I did not have a network connection when I face this error)

In case a network is not present once can install / enable the "Loop-back Adapter" from the "Network and Sharing Adapter" . By enabling this the WCF based calls would be able to go through the TCP/IP stack and would like a charm.( And this what I did)

 

Hope that would help a few !!!

 

 Thanks

  Amit