When running the command from step 8), it throw following exception, previous steps all passed without any issue:
java.lang.RuntimeException: com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.NoHostAvailableException: All host(s) tried for query failed (tried: localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:9041 (com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.TransportException: [localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:9041] Cannot connect), localhost/127.0.0.1:9041 (com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.TransportException: [localhost/127.0.0.1:9041] Cannot connect)) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.settings.StressSettings.getJavaDriverClient(StressSettings.java:148) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.settings.StressSettings.getJavaDriverClient(StressSettings.java:116) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.settings.SettingsSchema.createKeySpaces(SettingsSchema.java:66) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.settings.StressSettings.maybeCreateKeyspaces(StressSettings.java:156) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.StressAction.run(StressAction.java:56) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.Stress.run(Stress.java:143) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.Stress.main(Stress.java:62) Caused by: com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.NoHostAvailableException: All host(s) tried for query failed (tried: localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:9041 (com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.TransportException: [localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:9041] Cannot connect), localhost/127.0.0.1:9041 (com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.TransportException: [localhost/127.0.0.1:9041] Cannot connect)) at com.datastax.driver.core.ControlConnection.reconnectInternal(ControlConnection.java:237) at com.datastax.driver.core.ControlConnection.connect(ControlConnection.java:84) at com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster$Manager.negotiateProtocolVersionAndConnect(Cluster.java:1622) at com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster$Manager.init(Cluster.java:1540) at com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster.getMetadata(Cluster.java:402) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.util.JavaDriverClient.connect(JavaDriverClient.java:177) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.settings.StressSettings.getJavaDriverClient(StressSettings.java:139) ... 6 more