When I was setting up my first cluster on windows I found this [blogpost][1] to be excellent. It covers many aspects of the setup including:
- Firewall / Networking issues.
- Running Cassandra as a service.
- Monitoring and maintenance.
If you want to create a complete setup with using just cassandra have a look at [**this blog**][2].
But to setup a multi-node cluster, you basically need to have the [correct ports open][3] on your servers. When it comes to configuration you are basically going to have identical **cassandra.yaml** configs accross all your nodes, with the same seeds list, and the only two fields need to be changed are the `listen_address` and possibly `rpc_address` (although you could just listen an all interfaces for the `rpc_address` by setting it to:
rpc_address: 0.0.0.0
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