# CCR and number of licensed nodes

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-and-number-of-licensed-nodes/234307
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** license, ccr-cross-cluster-replication
**Created:** [May 26, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-and-number-of-licensed-nodes/234307 "2020-05-26T10:31:55Z")
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### Author: ![KidFashion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kidfashion/32/49135_2.png) [@KidFashion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KidFashion)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-and-number-of-licensed-nodes/234307/1 "2020-05-26T10:31:56Z")

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Hello,

I know that CCR feature requires a Platinum License but I would like to understand if, in a DR scenario, nodes of the DR cluster needs to be counted or not:

To make things clearer I was looking at the webinar at [https://www.elastic.co/webinars/replicate-elasticsearch-data-with-cross-cluster-replication-ccr](https://www.elastic.co/webinars/replicate-elasticsearch-data-with-cross-cluster-replication-ccr) and the scenario I am interested into is the following:

 ![DRUseCase](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/b/1b1bc801c9d0c329153676e69a25a667560542af.png)

Let's say I want to setup a 2-nodes Production Data Center and 2-nodes Disaster Recovery Data Center.

DR Data Center is not used at all beside CCR feature (to ingest CCR traffic).

In this case am I supposed to license 4 nodes (2 for Production Data Center and 2 for DR) or only the 2 used in the production cluster?

Thank you for your help

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### Author: ![jasontedor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jasontedor/32/66992_2.png) [@jasontedor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jasontedor)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-and-number-of-licensed-nodes/234307/2 "2020-05-26T11:37:17Z")

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Yes, a platinum license is required for the nodes in both clusters.

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### Author: ![KidFashion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kidfashion/32/49135_2.png) [@KidFashion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KidFashion)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-and-number-of-licensed-nodes/234307/3 "2020-05-26T11:51:17Z")

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Thank you for the clarification.

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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: [June 23, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-and-number-of-licensed-nodes/234307/4 "2020-06-23T11:57:45Z")

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