Currently we are using Ignite 2.1 and Spring Data Ignite Repository. I have a server node and a client node with one cache \"TestCache\". When client is connected to server,
Yes, you correctly found an issue related to this problem: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-5789
After restart server node(obviously) doesn't have any information about caches started before it was stopped. In the same time, if client reconnects with the EVT_CLIENT_NODE_RECONNECTED event, it doesn't create cache again, because it thinks that it was reconnected to the same cluster, where this cache was already created.
As a workaround, you can restart client node, it will create cache again after normal restart.