# Adding one more DATA node and increasing number of shards to four from three

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-one-more-data-node-and-increasing-number-of-shards-to-four-from-three/124994>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-one-more-data-node-and-increasing-number-of-shards-to-four-from-three/124994 "2018-03-21T13:28:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![hadi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hadi/32/27893_2.png) [@hadi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hadi)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-one-more-data-node-and-increasing-number-of-shards-to-four-from-three/124994/1 "2018-03-21T13:28:52Z")

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Hey,

My current cluster architecture is as follows:

- Three master nodes
- Three data nodes
- Two ingest nodes

And I am using X-Pack on the current cluster. Plus, here is my default template for shards and replicas strategy.

```
{
  "default_template": {
    "order": 0,
    "index_patterns": [
      "*"
    ],
    "settings": {
      "index": {
        "number_of_shards": "3",
        "number_of_replicas": "1"
      }
    },
    "mappings": {},
    "aliases": {}
  }
}

```

Now I want to add a new DATA node to the cluster in order to distribute the load among more nodes and speed up the lookup time for users.

My new cluster will be as follows:

- Three master nodes
- Four data nodes
- Two ingest nodes

Can you please tell me how can I add the new DATA node? References? Best Practices? Step by step guide?

Thank you.

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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:** [April 18, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-one-more-data-node-and-increasing-number-of-shards-to-four-from-three/124994/2 "2018-04-18T13:29:24Z")

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