diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/test/test/InternalTestClusterTests.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/test/test/InternalTestClusterTests.java
index 16e3c702580..cf5c00e1575 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/test/test/InternalTestClusterTests.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/test/test/InternalTestClusterTests.java
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ public class InternalTestClusterTests extends ESTestCase {
         String nodePrefix = randomRealisticUnicodeOfCodepointLengthBetween(1, 10);
 
         Path baseDir = createTempDir();
-        InternalTestCluster cluster0 = new InternalTestCluster(InternalTestCluster.configuredNodeMode(), clusterSeed, baseDir, minNumDataNodes, maxNumDataNodes, clusterName, settingsSource, numClientNodes, enableHttpPipelining, nodePrefix);
-        InternalTestCluster cluster1 = new InternalTestCluster(InternalTestCluster.configuredNodeMode(), clusterSeed, baseDir, minNumDataNodes, maxNumDataNodes, clusterName, settingsSource, numClientNodes, enableHttpPipelining, nodePrefix);
+        InternalTestCluster cluster0 = new InternalTestCluster("local", clusterSeed, baseDir, minNumDataNodes, maxNumDataNodes, clusterName, settingsSource, numClientNodes, enableHttpPipelining, nodePrefix);
+        InternalTestCluster cluster1 = new InternalTestCluster("local", clusterSeed, baseDir, minNumDataNodes, maxNumDataNodes, clusterName, settingsSource, numClientNodes, enableHttpPipelining, nodePrefix);
         assertClusters(cluster0, cluster1, true);
 
     }
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ public class InternalTestClusterTests extends ESTestCase {
         String nodePrefix = "foobar";
 
         Path baseDir = createTempDir();
-        InternalTestCluster cluster0 = new InternalTestCluster(InternalTestCluster.configuredNodeMode(), clusterSeed, baseDir, minNumDataNodes, maxNumDataNodes, clusterName1, settingsSource, numClientNodes, enableHttpPipelining, nodePrefix);
-        InternalTestCluster cluster1 = new InternalTestCluster(InternalTestCluster.configuredNodeMode(), clusterSeed, baseDir, minNumDataNodes, maxNumDataNodes, clusterName2, settingsSource, numClientNodes, enableHttpPipelining, nodePrefix);
+        InternalTestCluster cluster0 = new InternalTestCluster("local", clusterSeed, baseDir, minNumDataNodes, maxNumDataNodes, clusterName1, settingsSource, numClientNodes, enableHttpPipelining, nodePrefix);
+        InternalTestCluster cluster1 = new InternalTestCluster("local", clusterSeed, baseDir, minNumDataNodes, maxNumDataNodes, clusterName2, settingsSource, numClientNodes, enableHttpPipelining, nodePrefix);
 
         assertClusters(cluster0, cluster1, false);
         long seed = randomLong();
@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ public class InternalTestClusterTests extends ESTestCase {
             cluster0.afterTest();
             cluster1.afterTest();
         } finally {
-
             IOUtils.close(cluster0, cluster1);
         }
     }