# Disable cluster rebalancing for replicas **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 30, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-cluster-rebalancing-for-replicas/21434 "2014-12-30T13:55:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arun\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Arun\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arun_2)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-cluster-rebalancing-for-replicas/21434/1 "2014-12-30T13:55:10Z")
Hello, I have a 3-node ES (v1.2.1) cluster with 1 replica. When there is a node failure, the cluster rebalances and allocates primary shards(6 per index) and replicas among the remaining 2 nodes which is fine. But we had an issue where the disk space filled up and brought the whole cluster down. I understand that we should allocate enough disk space to all nodes, but is there a way to disable re-allocation of replicas ? On a node failure, we want the replica to get promoted to primary, but we don't want new replicas to be allocated among the remaining 2 nodes. Replicas should get allocated when the cluster has 3 members. I have looked at cluster.routing.allocation\*rebalance options but I'm confused. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Arun -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/ca609103-1921-4702-97e0-62aaf023803b%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/ca609103-1921-4702-97e0-62aaf023803b%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-cluster-rebalancing-for-replicas/21434/2 "2015-01-01T03:06:14Z")
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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:** [July 6, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-cluster-rebalancing-for-replicas/21434/3 "2017-07-06T00:41:17Z")