9.3. The rebalancingEnabled Attribute

Suppressing rebalancing can only be triggered via the rebalancingEnabled JMX attribute, and requires no specific configuration.
The rebalancingEnabled attribute can be modified for the entire cluster from the LocalTopologyManager JMX Mbean on any node. This attribute is true by default, and is configurable programmatically.
Servers such as Hot Rod attempt to start all caches declared in the configuration during startup. If rebalancing is disabled, the cache will fail to start. Therefore, it is mandatory to use the following setting in a server environment:
<await-initial-transfer="false"/>