# 200 primary shards 200 unassigned

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/200-primary-shards-200-unassigned/285688>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 1, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/200-primary-shards-200-unassigned/285688 "2021-10-01T14:47:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![sebux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@sebux](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sebux)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/200-primary-shards-200-unassigned/285688/1 "2021-10-01T14:47:37Z")

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Hello

I'm new to ES. I'm trying to understand what does this mean .  
When I curl the cluster health status I'm seing 200 primary shards and 200 unassigned shards.  
Does this have an impact on my cluster?

Sebux

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**Author:** ![rugenl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rugenl/32/12887_2.png) [@rugenl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rugenl)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/200-primary-shards-200-unassigned/285688/2 "2021-10-01T15:00:12Z")

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If this is a new, single node cluster, you probably have a default of 1 replica. With only one node, of course primary shards have to be on that node. Replica shards must be on a different node, so they can't (yet) be allocated. If you added a second node, replicas would be created. You can also set replica = 0 on your shards and clear the "error".

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/200-primary-shards-200-unassigned/285688/3 "2021-10-29T15:00:53Z")

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