# Error when creating Clusters across Availability Zones **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\ **Created:** [September 3, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-creating-clusters-across-availability-zones/147052 "2018-09-03T10:36:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ong](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ong/32/40766_2.png) [@Ong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ong)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-creating-clusters-across-availability-zones/147052/1 "2018-09-03T10:36:52Z")
I have a ECE setup with 3 availability zones within a network. Within each zone, there are 2 VMs. 1 VM has the proxy and allocator roles while the other VM has the coordinator and director roles. Whenever a cluster is created which needs to reside on 2 or 3 availability zones, the cluster creation process will fail. The error message is: > Unexpected error during step: [allocate-instances]: [no.found.constructor.steps.allocation.AllocationFailedException: Allocation failed: [CoordinationFailed(org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperMultiException: KeeperErrorCode = NoNode with [CHECK(/, null)), SET\_DATA(/clusters/769a5b21eda2420cadf9ee88afc4551a/instances/instance-0000000002, null)), SET\_DATA(/clusters/769a5b21eda2420cadf9ee88afc4551a/instances/instance-0000000005, null)), SET\_DATA(/clusters/769a5b21eda2420cadf9ee88afc4551a/instances/instance-0000000003, null)), SET\_DATA(/clusters/769a5b21eda2420cadf9ee88afc4551a/instances/instance-0000000001, null)), SET\_DATA(/clusters/769a5b21eda2420cadf9ee88afc4551a/instances/instance-0000000004, null)), SET\_DATA(/clusters/769a5b21eda2420cadf9ee88afc4551a/instances/instance-0000000000, null)), SET\_DATA(/services/allocators/ece-region-1b/10.2.92.201/instances, null)), SET\_DATA(/services/allocators/ece-region-1c/10.2.92.202/instances, null)), SET\_DATA(/services/allocators/ece-region-1a/10.2.92.200/instances, null))])].] If a cluster is created just on 1 availability zone, then the cluster can be created successfully. However, if I edit the cluster to run from 1 to 2 availability zones, then the same error message will appear. How do I address this problem? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-creating-clusters-across-availability-zones/147052/2 "2018-09-17T10:38:47Z")
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**Author:** ![Alex\_Piggott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alex_piggott/32/11053_2.png) [@Alex\_Piggott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Piggott)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-creating-clusters-across-availability-zones/147052/3 "2018-09-24T21:10:08Z")
Hi @ong - sorry this forum has been so unresponsive - did this ever get resolved? That's a very strange error ... it would imply that one or two of the 3 zones was not installed correctly (but in a strange way I've not seen before). I'd probably find out which one by using the "maintenance mode" button on each pair of allocators in turn and create a 1 zone cluster, then wipe/reinstall the allocator in question Alex