# Elasticsearch cluster has unassigned shards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/13969
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 16, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/13969 "2013-10-16T13:03:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Sudheer\_Valla](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sudheer_Valla)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/13969/1 "2013-10-16T13:03:38Z")
Hi,
We have single node elasticsearch cluster. there are unassigned shards.
when I manually route them they are getting assigned to the local node.
is there a limit for number shards per node?
Regards,
Sudheer
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/13969/2 "2013-10-17T00:15:46Z")
Do you have replicas setup for your indices? The default replica count is
1, so if you only have a single node, the replica shards cannot be assigned.
Cheers,
Ivan
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Sudheer Valla
[sudheer.valla@kantaritp.com](mailto:sudheer.valla@kantaritp.com)wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have single node elasticsearch cluster. there are unassigned shards.
> when I manually route them they are getting assigned to the local node.
> is there a limit for number shards per node?
>
> Regards,
> Sudheer
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/13969/3 "2017-07-06T02:12:01Z")