# Balancing between different size of nodes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 9, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-between-different-size-of-nodes/96362 "2017-08-09T02:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yongtao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e99b99/32.png) [@yongtao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yongtao)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-between-different-size-of-nodes/96362/1 "2017-08-09T02:09:19Z")
Hi, I have a small cluster with 2 nodes. It's overloaded, and the only resource I have is a "half" node (with half of RAM). I added it to the cluster, hoping that it will help at least a bit. It ends up with 10% more data than the other 2 nodes relocated to it, and as a result, the whole cluster slowed down. Any way I can specify percentage of data each node should hold? Something like, each of the 2 original nodes will hold 40% of data, while the "half" node will hold 20%. Thanks! Yongtao ---
**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:** [August 9, 2017, 6:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-between-different-size-of-nodes/96362/2 "2017-08-09T06:57:32Z")
No you can't. But you can use tags on your nodes and manually allocate indices on specific nodes. So it would be manual. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 6:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-between-different-size-of-nodes/96362/3 "2017-09-06T06:57:36Z")
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