# Assign shards

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/assign-shards/70955>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 9, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/assign-shards/70955 "2017-01-09T15:08:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![bbhandari0121](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@bbhandari0121](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bbhandari0121)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/assign-shards/70955/1 "2017-01-09T15:08:13Z")

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Hi Team,  
How can i manually assign the shards in the ES v.5. Previously in old version i used to have index.number\_of\_shards: 1 in elasticsearch.yml file, but it doesnt work any more on the latest version. Any help will be really appreciated.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/assign-shards/70955/2 "2017-01-09T18:49:08Z")

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It's actually an index setting. You can add this to an index template if you wish so it gets applied to all new indices you will create.

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**Author:** ![bbhandari0121](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@bbhandari0121](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bbhandari0121)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/assign-shards/70955/3 "2017-01-09T18:53:53Z")

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Thank you for you help. Do you have any links on how we can archive it via template ?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/assign-shards/70955/4 "2017-01-09T19:06:45Z")

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The documentation says it: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/indices-templates.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/indices-templates.html)

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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:** [February 6, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/assign-shards/70955/5 "2017-02-06T19:06:47Z")

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