# Elastic cluster: docker or VM for production? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** docker\ **Created:** [October 15, 2019, 6:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cluster-docker-or-vm-for-production/203567 "2019-10-15T06:23:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Petr.Simik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/petr.simik/32/38082_2.png) [@Petr.Simik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Petr.Simik)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cluster-docker-or-vm-for-production/203567/7 "2019-10-21T06:48:10Z")
the last issue I have is disk asignment , with non-Docker installation it is all much easier for me, I entered this docker world recently. So I created separate task, > [@How to set path.data set to multiple paths within docker](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-path-data-set-to-multiple-paths-within-docker/204162): > > I found it is possible to configure path.data to multiple paths [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/path-settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/path-settings.html) I want to add ssd1+ssd2 as a disk to elastic-node1 and ssd3+4 to elastic-node2 I also want to add directory from non-ssd /mnt/data for snapshots and warm tier indexes.. user@host3:~$ df -h Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb xfs 26T 34M 26T 1% /mnt/data /dev/mapper/ssd1-volume xfs 7… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cluster-docker-or-vm-for-production/203567)._