To recover a cluster that has Persistence enabled after a cluster-wide restart, you can force a cluster to delete their persistence stores when one or more members fail to restart.
Before you Begin
You should trigger a force-start only if your cluster has Persistence enabled and it is configured to use the FULL_RECOVERY_ONLY policy. See Choosing a Cluster Recovery Policy.
| Force-start deletes all data in your cluster members' persistence stores. | 
Using Management Center
See the Management Center docs.
Using the REST API
See the REST API docs.
| Deprecation Notice for the REST API The REST API has been deprecated and will be removed as of Hazelcast version 7.0. An improved version of this feature is under development. | 
Using Cluster Management Scripts
See the Cluster management scripts.