We are planning to use single node Elasticsearch cluster. The node may contain multiple locations for writing indexing data. I would like to know, if it is possible to write the data to a specific indexing location only? For example, if there are 2 drives added in path.data namely C: & D: in a sin…

I'm not sure what sort of documentation you might need. You configure one node for each data path, it really is that simple. I thought I'd mentioned this above but it seems not: you can combine multiple drives together into a single data path using RAID-0 or similar. On Linux there are options like…

Control over writing data to a specific drive

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DavidTurner (David Turner) April 29, 2021, 7:52pm 5

Use one node per drive. If you want to move data off a drive, you can use shard allocation filtering.

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Control over writing data to a specific drive

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