# Balancing shards on non-uniform hardware **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 21, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-shards-on-non-uniform-hardware/5430 "2011-09-21T23:50:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yooz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/13edae/32.png) [@Yooz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yooz)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-shards-on-non-uniform-hardware/5430/1 "2011-09-21T23:50:31Z")
Hello sirs, If I had a cluster with varying amounts of RAM available, e.g. 4, 8, 16GB available for ES to use via ES\_MIN\_MEM/ES\_MAX\_MEM, will the cluster know how to balance the shards correctly according the the resources available on each node? Thanks! --young ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-shards-on-non-uniform-hardware/5430/2 "2011-09-22T10:58:13Z")
No, there is no support for that in elasticsearch. Memory plays just a part of different level of servers, btw. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Yooz [youngmaeng@gmail.com](mailto:youngmaeng@gmail.com) wrote: > Hello sirs, > > If I had a cluster with varying amounts of RAM available, e.g. 4, 8, > 16GB available for ES to use via ES\_MIN\_MEM/ES\_MAX\_MEM, will the > cluster know how to balance the shards correctly according the the > resources available on each node? > > Thanks! > --young ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/balancing-shards-on-non-uniform-hardware/5430/3 "2017-07-06T03:53:50Z")