# ELK PROD Cluster - Running multiple data docker containers on same machine. Docker Swarm

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-prod-cluster-running-multiple-data-docker-containers-on-same-machine-docker-swarm/356074>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [March 25, 2024, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-prod-cluster-running-multiple-data-docker-containers-on-same-machine-docker-swarm/356074 "2024-03-25T05:55:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![vdcharter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@vdcharter](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vdcharter)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-prod-cluster-running-multiple-data-docker-containers-on-same-machine-docker-swarm/356074/1 "2024-03-25T05:55:19Z")

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Hi, I have a 16 server PROD cluster with 3 VM's and 13 Baremetal servers.  
These are very high performance servers with below configurations

**3 VM's with each having -- 8x vCPU, 48GB RAM, ~900GB Storage (ES Masters)**

**13 Baremetal servers with each having -- 96 Cores, 256GB RAM, 2x240GB SSD, 90TB SSD (Data and Kibana Nodes)**

I have setup the ELK cluster already with the baremetal servers acting as data nodes with 32 GB heap each and each server running a single data container. but as i have high performance machines with 256 GB RAM, resoruces are being wasted.  
**How can I run multiple data containers on each machine without running into the node.lock issue? OR how do I specify volume and data path from local disk for multiple containers on same server?**  
**I am running Elastic and Kibana version 8.11.0.**

Please advise on how this can be done and let me know if you need more details?

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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:** [April 22, 2024, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-prod-cluster-running-multiple-data-docker-containers-on-same-machine-docker-swarm/356074/2 "2024-04-22T05:55:25Z")

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