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| title: Options for Configuring the Cache and Data Regions |
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| To populate your <%=vars.product_name_long%> cache and fine-tune its storage and distribution behavior, you need to define cached data regions and provide custom configuration for the cache and regions. |
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| Cache configuration properties define: |
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| - Cache-wide settings such as disk stores, communication timeouts, and settings designating the member as a server |
| - Cache data regions |
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| Configure the cache and its data regions through one or more of these methods: |
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| - Through a persistent configuration that you define when issuing commands that use the gfsh command line utility. The gfsh utility supports the administration, debugging, and deployment of <%=vars.product_name_long%> processes and applications. You can use gfsh to configure regions, locators, servers, disk stores, event queues, and other objects. |
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| As you issue commands, gfsh saves a set of configurations that apply to the entire cluster and also saves configurations that only apply to defined groups of members within the cluster. You can re-use these configurations to create a cluster. See [Overview of the Cluster Configuration Service](../../configuring/cluster_config/gfsh_persist.html). |
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| - Through declarations in the XML file named in the `cache-xml-file` `gemfire.properties` setting. This file is generally referred to as the `cache.xml` file, but it can have any name. See [cache.xml](../../reference/topics/chapter_overview_cache_xml.html#cache_xml). |
| - Through application calls to the `org.apache.geode.cache.CacheFactory`, `org.apache.geode.cache.Cache` and `org.apache.geode.cache.Region` APIs. |
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