# Creating a cluster out of a current node?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cluster-out-of-a-current-node/12967
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 27, 2013, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cluster-out-of-a-current-node/12967 "2013-07-27T07:59:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Eugene\_Y\_E](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eugene_Y_E)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2013, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cluster-out-of-a-current-node/12967/1 "2013-07-27T07:59:43Z")
hi all,
I have a elasticsearch node running and already with about 100GB of data,
all well and indexed.
I would like to create a cluster out of this current node.
How do i do it ? Or do I create a cluster from scratch and transfer the
data from my current node to this new cluster ?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cluster-out-of-a-current-node/12967/2 "2013-07-27T08:36:33Z")
Just start a new node with same clustername.
Elasticsearch will copy shards over the wire (if replica\>=1) or will rebalance shards (if replica=0).
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Le 27 juil. 2013 à 09:59, "Eugene Y.E" [ye.eugene@gmail.com](mailto:ye.eugene@gmail.com) a écrit :
hi all,
I have a elasticsearch node running and already with about 100GB of data, all well and indexed.
I would like to create a cluster out of this current node.
How do i do it ? Or do I create a cluster from scratch and transfer the data from my current node to this new cluster ?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cluster-out-of-a-current-node/12967/3 "2017-07-06T02:24:11Z")