I'm trying to start two zookeeper instances required for kafka cluster on two different ports with different log directories. However I'm getting below error when I'm trying to start second zookeeper -
D:\Kafka\kafka_2.12-2.3.0 - Copy>bin\windows\zookeeper-server-start.bat config\zookeeper.properties Unrecognized option: - Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
You don't need to copy folders, only zookeeper.properties and you should never run only 2 ZKs anyway
Regarding the error, Unrecognized option: -... Don't copy folders, like I said, and make sure there are no spaces in the path to Zookeeper scripts
Note: this setup is highly discouraged even with separate directories because your failure domain is still that OS / machine. Kafka only requires a minimum of one Zookeeper to function
