# Balancing an Elasticsearch Cluster by Shard Size

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-an-elasticsearch-cluster-by-shard-size/43934>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 9, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-an-elasticsearch-cluster-by-shard-size/43934 "2016-03-09T18:56:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jinwg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jinwg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jinwg)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-an-elasticsearch-cluster-by-shard-size/43934/1 "2016-03-09T18:56:35Z")

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Dose ElasticSearch 2.x can balance shards allocation base on its size like the Tempest plugin?  
[http://engineering.datarank.com/2015/07/08/balancing-elasticsearch-cluster-by-shard-size.html](http://engineering.datarank.com/2015/07/08/balancing-elasticsearch-cluster-by-shard-size.html)

Thanks. Jin

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**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-an-elasticsearch-cluster-by-shard-size/43934/2 "2016-03-09T19:08:27Z")

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Not that I know of. The best you can do is fiddle with things like allocation awareness and total\_shards\_per\_node.

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**Author:** ![jinwg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jinwg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jinwg)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-an-elasticsearch-cluster-by-shard-size/43934/3 "2016-03-22T20:16:29Z")

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thanks @nik9000, already tried with the awareness attributes, works pretty good.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-an-elasticsearch-cluster-by-shard-size/43934/4 "2017-07-05T23:06:10Z")

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