# Create different new nodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 3, 2017, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-different-new-nodes/102520 "2017-10-03T07:28:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-different-new-nodes/102520/1 "2017-10-03T07:28:37Z")
Greetings, I am new to ELK I am not getting it through the tutorials please help me in it. As I want to monitor different servers(5 Servers) So I want to know as to observe the servers live do i Need more than 1 Node? and also how to create replica Shards? For Using ELK Stack on live Server Is important to have replica Shard? Is it compulsory to have more than 1 Node to create replica Shards. If yes than How to create different Nodes? Thanks & Regards Shrikan ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-different-new-nodes/102520/2 "2017-10-03T07:59:52Z")
A single Elasticsearch node can most likely handle data from 5 servers. If you want your setup to be highly available you will however need at least 3 Elasticsearch nodes. If you only have a single node, no replica shards will be used as Elasticsearch will not store the same shards multiple times on a node. ---
**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-different-new-nodes/102520/3 "2017-10-03T08:38:59Z")
Thankyou for the reply than how to create another node Do we need another instance? For the second node? Thanks & Regards Shrikant ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-different-new-nodes/102520/4 "2017-10-03T08:44:25Z")
If you want more than one node you will need additional instances. ---
**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-different-new-nodes/102520/5 "2017-10-03T08:55:58Z")
What should be the setting of that node in elasticsearch.yml Thanks & Regards Shrikant ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-different-new-nodes/102520/6 "2017-10-03T09:36:40Z")
The most important settings are described [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/important-settings.html). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-different-new-nodes/102520/7 "2017-10-31T09:37:15Z")
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