# Elasticsearch Deployment architecture

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-deployment-architecture/17255>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 29, 2014, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-deployment-architecture/17255 "2014-04-29T10:40:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-deployment-architecture/17255/1 "2014-04-29T10:40:26Z")

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Hi,

I am very new to elasticsearch, I am trying to deploy elasticsearch in my  
dev environment - While there are many ways in which Elasticsearch can be  
deployed, I and my team have arrived at this architecture

4 Data Nodes  
3 Master Nodes  
2 Search Load Balancers (SLB)

Now my question is:

- Does it make sense to have SLB at all?
- Can I just have master nodes and have them perform the JOB of SLB too?

Please enlighten me on a sensible Elasticsearch Architecture!

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-deployment-architecture/17255/2 "2014-04-29T10:42:16Z")

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1 - Yes if you do a lot of intense querying, eg facets.  
2 - Yes that's perfectly fine.

We have a 20 node cluster, with 3 master only nodes that also act as our  
search nodes, and the setup works great for us. We may need to revisit this  
in the future though.

Regards,  
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer  
Campaign Monitor  
email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)  
web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)

On 29 April 2014 20:40, Dinesh Chandra [shadow.on.fire@gmail.com](mailto:shadow.on.fire@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am very new to elasticsearch, I am trying to deploy elasticsearch in my  
> dev environment - While there are many ways in which Elasticsearch can be  
> deployed, I and my team have arrived at this architecture
> 
> 4 Data Nodes  
> 3 Master Nodes  
> 2 Search Load Balancers (SLB)
> 
> Now my question is:
> 
> - Does it make sense to have SLB at all?
> - Can I just have master nodes and have them perform the JOB of SLB too?
> 
> Please enlighten me on a sensible Elasticsearch Architecture!
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-deployment-architecture/17255/3 "2014-04-29T11:03:03Z")

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Hi Mark

Thanks for such a quick response !

And thanks also for clarifying the questions ... !

On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 16:12:16 UTC+5:30, Mark Walkom wrote:

> 1 - Yes if you do a lot of intense querying, eg facets.  
> 2 - Yes that's perfectly fine.
> 
> We have a 20 node cluster, with 3 master only nodes that also act as our  
> search nodes, and the setup works great for us. We may need to revisit this  
> in the future though.
> 
> Regards,  
> Mark Walkom
> 
> Infrastructure Engineer  
> Campaign Monitor  
> email: [ma...@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:ma...@campaignmonitor.com) \<javascript:\>  
> web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)
> 
> On 29 April 2014 20:40, Dinesh Chandra \<[shadow....@gmail.com](mailto:shadow....@gmail.com) \<javascript:\>
> 
> > wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am very new to elasticsearch, I am trying to deploy elasticsearch in my  
> > dev environment - While there are many ways in which Elasticsearch can be  
> > deployed, I and my team have arrived at this architecture
> > 
> > 4 Data Nodes  
> > 3 Master Nodes  
> > 2 Search Load Balancers (SLB)
> > 
> > Now my question is:
> > 
> > - Does it make sense to have SLB at all?
> > - Can I just have master nodes and have them perform the JOB of SLB too?
> > 
> > Please enlighten me on a sensible Elasticsearch Architecture!
> > 
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-deployment-architecture/17255/4 "2014-04-29T23:02:40Z")

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On a related note, if you have separate slb and master, your main LB (say,  
haproxy) would be pointing to the slb , not the master , right?  
On 29/04/2014 8:40 pm, "Dinesh Chandra" [shadow.on.fire@gmail.com](mailto:shadow.on.fire@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am very new to elasticsearch, I am trying to deploy elasticsearch in my  
> dev environment - While there are many ways in which Elasticsearch can be  
> deployed, I and my team have arrived at this architecture
> 
> 4 Data Nodes  
> 3 Master Nodes  
> 2 Search Load Balancers (SLB)
> 
> Now my question is:
> 
> - Does it make sense to have SLB at all?
> - Can I just have master nodes and have them perform the JOB of SLB too?
> 
> Please enlighten me on a sensible Elasticsearch Architecture!
> 
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For searches, yes. You'd want the indexing to go to the masters.

Regards,  
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer  
Campaign Monitor  
email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)  
web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)

On 30 April 2014 09:02, Norberto Meijome [numard@gmail.com](mailto:numard@gmail.com) wrote:

> On a related note, if you have separate slb and master, your main LB (say,  
> haproxy) would be pointing to the slb , not the master , right?  
> On 29/04/2014 8:40 pm, "Dinesh Chandra" [shadow.on.fire@gmail.com](mailto:shadow.on.fire@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am very new to elasticsearch, I am trying to deploy elasticsearch in my  
> > dev environment - While there are many ways in which Elasticsearch can be  
> > deployed, I and my team have arrived at this architecture
> > 
> > 4 Data Nodes  
> > 3 Master Nodes  
> > 2 Search Load Balancers (SLB)
> > 
> > Now my question is:
> > 
> > - Does it make sense to have SLB at all?
> > - Can I just have master nodes and have them perform the JOB of SLB too?
> > 
> > Please enlighten me on a sensible Elasticsearch Architecture!
> > 
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Sending indexing requests to SLB - is this less optimal, or would outright  
fail?  
On 30/04/2014 9:04 am, "Mark Walkom" [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com) wrote:

> For searches, yes. You'd want the indexing to go to the masters.
> 
> Regards,  
> Mark Walkom
> 
> Infrastructure Engineer  
> Campaign Monitor  
> email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)  
> web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)
> 
> On 30 April 2014 09:02, Norberto Meijome [numard@gmail.com](mailto:numard@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > On a related note, if you have separate slb and master, your main LB  
> > (say, haproxy) would be pointing to the slb , not the master , right?  
> > On 29/04/2014 8:40 pm, "Dinesh Chandra" [shadow.on.fire@gmail.com](mailto:shadow.on.fire@gmail.com)  
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am very new to elasticsearch, I am trying to deploy elasticsearch in  
> > > my dev environment - While there are many ways in which Elasticsearch can  
> > > be deployed, I and my team have arrived at this architecture
> > > 
> > > 4 Data Nodes  
> > > 3 Master Nodes  
> > > 2 Search Load Balancers (SLB)
> > > 
> > > Now my question is:
> > > 
> > > - Does it make sense to have SLB at all?
> > > - Can I just have master nodes and have them perform the JOB of SLB too?
> > > 
> > > Please enlighten me on a sensible Elasticsearch Architecture!
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It will work, but if you want to maintain HA then it'd make sense to keep  
your inputs separate from your outputs. At least, that's my take 🙂

Regards,  
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer  
Campaign Monitor  
email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)  
web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)

On 30 April 2014 19:48, Norberto Meijome [numard@gmail.com](mailto:numard@gmail.com) wrote:

> Sending indexing requests to SLB - is this less optimal, or would outright  
> fail?  
> On 30/04/2014 9:04 am, "Mark Walkom" [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com) wrote:
> 
> > For searches, yes. You'd want the indexing to go to the masters.
> > 
> > Regards,  
> > Mark Walkom
> > 
> > Infrastructure Engineer  
> > Campaign Monitor  
> > email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)  
> > web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com)
> > 
> > On 30 April 2014 09:02, Norberto Meijome [numard@gmail.com](mailto:numard@gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > On a related note, if you have separate slb and master, your main LB  
> > > (say, haproxy) would be pointing to the slb , not the master , right?  
> > > On 29/04/2014 8:40 pm, "Dinesh Chandra" [shadow.on.fire@gmail.com](mailto:shadow.on.fire@gmail.com)  
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I am very new to elasticsearch, I am trying to deploy elasticsearch in  
> > > > my dev environment - While there are many ways in which Elasticsearch can  
> > > > be deployed, I and my team have arrived at this architecture
> > > > 
> > > > 4 Data Nodes  
> > > > 3 Master Nodes  
> > > > 2 Search Load Balancers (SLB)
> > > > 
> > > > Now my question is:
> > > > 
> > > > - Does it make sense to have SLB at all?
> > > > - Can I just have master nodes and have them perform the JOB of SLB  
> > > > too?
> > > > 
> > > > Please enlighten me on a sensible Elasticsearch Architecture!
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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, 1:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-deployment-architecture/17255/8 "2017-07-06T01:32:30Z")

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