# ES shard placement on different nodes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-shard-placement-on-different-nodes/21285
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 17, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-shard-placement-on-different-nodes/21285 "2014-12-17T01:29:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Nidhi\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nidhi_Gupta)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-shard-placement-on-different-nodes/21285/1 "2014-12-17T01:29:26Z")
Hi,
I have multi index ES cluster. I read ES tries to equally distributes the
shards on different nodes.
Question :
ES tries the equal distribution across all nodes of primary+replica shards
per index or primary shards per index and then distribute replica shards
per index?
so its it possible that all primary shards may end up on the same node?
Thanks,
Nidhi
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-shard-placement-on-different-nodes/21285/2 "2014-12-17T01:48:56Z")
Yes it's possible but you should not be afraid of this.
At the end, both primary and replicas will do the same "index"/"search" operation.
HTH
David
> Le 17 déc. 2014 à 02:29, Nidhi Gupta [gupta.nidhi06@gmail.com](mailto:gupta.nidhi06@gmail.com) a écrit :
>
> Hi,
> I have multi index ES cluster. I read ES tries to equally distributes the shards on different nodes.
> Question :
> ES tries the equal distribution across all nodes of primary+replica shards per index or primary shards per index and then distribute replica shards per index?
> so its it possible that all primary shards may end up on the same node?
>
> Thanks,
> Nidhi
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-shard-placement-on-different-nodes/21285/3 "2017-07-06T00:43:21Z")