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I am executing JMeter remote testing with 1 master machine (192.168.0.1) and with 7 slave machines with 3 VMs (192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.4) on a network interface and 4 other VMs (192.168.0.5 to 192.168.0.8) are in a different network interface.
My JMeter script is located at Master machine - 192.168.0.1
I tried to execute my test with the following command
./jmeter -n -t /home/lup01/Document/LuP2021/ITonICE_Lasttest_InfluxDebug_09032021.jmx -l /home/lup01/Document/LuP2021/LuP2021_LastTest_001_14-10-2021_7VMs.jtl -R 192.168.100.2,192.168.100.3,192.168.100.4 -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=192.168.100.6,192.168.100.7,192.168.100.8,192.168.100.9
However, the test never started. the screen just hung and after 15 minutes i had to stop the test. I did the sample run only with 3 threads.
On course of debugging, i also checked that, when i executed the test with
./jmeter -n -t /home/lup01/Document/LuP2021/ITonICE_Lasttest_InfluxDebug_09032021.jmx -l /home/lup01/Document/LuP2021/LuP2021_LastTest_001_14-10-2021_7VMs.jtl -R 192.168.100.2,192.168.100.3,192.168.100.4
the test was running fine with 3 VMs which are on the same interface as the master machine
However, when i executed the 2nd part
./jmeter -n -t /home/lup01/Dokumente/LuP2021/ITonICE_Lasttest_InfluxDebug_09032021.jmx -l /home/lup01/Dokumente/LuP2021/LuP2021_LastTest_001_14-10-2021_7VMs.jtl -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=192.168.100.6,192.168.100.7,192.168.100.8,192.168.100.9
the test got executed but the load was generated only on the master machine (192.168.0.1). i validated this by printing the host name in the result file.
Can someone please guide me what changes i need to do to get the test running successfully and the load being generated at the slave machines 192.168.100.6 to 192.168.100.9?

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It doesn't make sense to run more than 1 JMeter process on 1 machine, it doesn't provide any benefit and just consumes resources, if you have only one machine - run a single JMeter process, just make sure to follow JMeter Best Practices and properly tune this JMeter instance for high throughput testing
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