diff --git a/utils/create-cluster/create-cluster b/utils/create-cluster/create-cluster
index 9ffd462ae..ab287403a 100755
--- a/utils/create-cluster/create-cluster
+++ b/utils/create-cluster/create-cluster
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ TIMEOUT=2000
 NODES=6
 REPLICAS=1
 PROTECTED_MODE=yes
+ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS=""
 
 # You may want to put the above config parameters into config.sh in order to
 # override the defaults without modifying this script.
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ then
     while [ $((PORT < ENDPORT)) != "0" ]; do
         PORT=$((PORT+1))
         echo "Starting $PORT"
-        ../../src/redis-server --port $PORT  --protected-mode $PROTECTED_MODE --cluster-enabled yes --cluster-config-file nodes-${PORT}.conf --cluster-node-timeout $TIMEOUT --appendonly yes --appendfilename appendonly-${PORT}.aof --dbfilename dump-${PORT}.rdb --logfile ${PORT}.log --daemonize yes
+        ../../src/redis-server --port $PORT  --protected-mode $PROTECTED_MODE --cluster-enabled yes --cluster-config-file nodes-${PORT}.conf --cluster-node-timeout $TIMEOUT --appendonly yes --appendfilename appendonly-${PORT}.aof --dbfilename dump-${PORT}.rdb --logfile ${PORT}.log --daemonize yes ${ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS}
     done
     exit 0
 fi