# ECE on Virtual Machines **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\ **Created:** [March 7, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ece-on-virtual-machines/222580 "2020-03-07T23:04:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tlazarus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@tlazarus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tlazarus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ece-on-virtual-machines/222580/1 "2020-03-07T23:04:15Z")
I'm hoping that someone else is running ECE on top of virtual machines, preferably on-premise, and would be willing to discuss their configuration. Using virtual machines rather than a bare-metal deployment obviously complicates things since ECE has no understanding of virtualization. I'm particularly concerned with having multiple nodes on the same host that contain the primary and secondary shards for an index and loss of the host. While I am familiar with pinning virtual machines to hosts, I'm trying to make this as easy to manage as possible. Thanks! Tim ---
**Author:** ![Jugsofbeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@Jugsofbeer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jugsofbeer)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ece-on-virtual-machines/222580/2 "2020-03-08T06:27:50Z")
I understand this question as I was in a similar position a year ago. Happy to chat offline though. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ece-on-virtual-machines/222580/3 "2020-03-22T06:27:50Z")
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