# Elasticsearch architechture

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-architechture/14440>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 17, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-architechture/14440 "2013-11-17T15:51:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![danielr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f17d59/32.png) [@danielr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielr)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-architechture/14440/1 "2013-11-17T15:51:38Z")

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Hi! I want to use es as my resource server.  
To support my users, I was planning on raising 2 servers with one instance on each server.  
Configuring the two nodes as a cluster with 8 shards for future scaling and 2 replicas for better prefformance .  
Also i want to set zen discovery to use unicast so that the two nodes will work synchronically.

My question is, will this configuration work for me?  
How do i make sure that it works? Just by calling the indexes and check its data?

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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, 2:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-architechture/14440/2 "2017-07-06T02:06:33Z")

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