Start one node with the configuration added below. Use any client with protobuf index annotations (example is here https://github.com/wfink/infinispan.playground.ickle ) add some entries check query start second node and wait for state-transfer check query (wihtout adding the same; so comment the put's in the client) shutdown node1 change the client to use node2 check query -> nothing is found configuration: <replicated-cache name="IcklePlayCompanyCache"> <locking isolation="REPEATABLE_READ"/> <transaction mode="NON_DURABLE_XA"/> <state-transfer enabled="true" timeout="40000000" chunk-size="512" await-initial-transfer="true"/> <file-store shared="false" fetch-state="true" passivation="false"> <write-behind modification-queue-size="1024" thread-pool-size="5"/> </file-store> <indexing index="ALL" auto-config="true"/> </replicated-cache>