# ES Version and Shards Advice **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 28, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-version-and-shards-advice/109296 "2017-11-28T00:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rwat090](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rwat090/32/48235_2.png) [@rwat090](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rwat090)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-version-and-shards-advice/109296/1 "2017-11-28T00:52:26Z")
Hi Everyone, Im a newbie with ES and I just have some general questions (I’m just looking for advice) - Current Installed ES version Version: 5.2.2 lucene\_version: 6.4.1 1. Version Question - Im looking at upgrading ES from 5.2.2 to version 5.5.3, would anyone advise against 5.5.3 version ? (I do prefer to stay a few versions behind the latest release) 1. Index Size / Shards Configuration "Test-index" : { "settings" : { "index.analysis.analyzer.phonetic\_analyzer.filter.3" : "stop", "index.analysis.analyzer.phonetic\_analyzer.filter.4" : "unique", "index.number\_of\_shards" : "5", "index.number\_of\_replicas" : "1", "index.version.created" : "190899" } - Current Index Size and Doc “Test-index" : { "index" : { "primary\_size" : "4.5gb", "primary\_size\_in\_bytes" : 4852459028, "size" : "8.8gb", "size\_in\_bytes" : 9525635793 }, "translog" : { "operations" : 144 }, "docs" : { "num\_docs" : 1016496, "max\_doc" : 1166314, "deleted\_docs" : 149818 }, - A maximum growth of 2Gig within the next year Question - As you can see we are only using a small index, I would like to implement 1 shard and 1 replication for “Test-index” instead of 5 shards (default) what I believe is an over kill for current size and the number of docs.. When performance testing 1 shard with 1m docs the results were excellent (reindexing speed and query response time) Any input would be great or tips Cheers Reid ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-version-and-shards-advice/109296/2 "2017-11-28T02:46:37Z")
> [@rwat090](#): > > (I do prefer to stay a few versions behind the latest release) I understand you don’t want to try 6.0.0 but really latest 5.x version is probably more stable, more secured, more .... than 5.5 🙂 So I’d go for latest 5.6. Be aware that there won’t be any 5.5 update but there will probably some 5.6 updates. 1 shard for your index is probably enough indeed. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-version-and-shards-advice/109296/3 "2017-12-26T02:46:59Z")
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