# Excluded nodes not receiving shards when re-included **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 1, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excluded-nodes-not-receiving-shards-when-re-included/9522 "2012-11-01T20:28:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excluded-nodes-not-receiving-shards-when-re-included/9522/1 "2012-11-01T20:28:54Z")
I've been experimenting with rolling upgrades. Removed 2 nodes of a 4 node cluster with cluster.routing.allocation.exclude.\_ip. Let the cluster move all the shards to the 2 nodes. In then disabled allocation (cluster.routing.allocation.disable\_allocation" : true) and re-included the 2 excluded nodes. Shards remained on two nodes. Re-enabled allocation, but the shards remain on only two nodes. How can I force the shards back to all 4 nodes? Using ES 0.19.8. Cheers, Ivan -- ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excluded-nodes-not-receiving-shards-when-re-included/9522/2 "2012-11-01T21:13:47Z")
Out of curiosity (this is a test cluster), I restarted one of the two nodes that had shards. One index had no replicas, so the shards were divided between 2 nodes. No issues with this index. Another index had 1 replica, so both nodes had all the shards. After the restart, the replicas were set to unassigned, with the restarted node getting no shards. Creating a new index, with any number of shards or replicas, will set all the shards as assigned although there are four nodes in the cluster. How can I verify the cluster allocation settings? Cheers, Ivan On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Ivan Brusic [ivan@brusic.com](mailto:ivan@brusic.com) wrote: > I've been experimenting with rolling upgrades. Removed 2 nodes of a 4 node > cluster with cluster.routing.allocation.exclude.\_ip. Let the cluster move > all the shards to the 2 nodes. In then disabled allocation > (cluster.routing.allocation.disable\_allocation" : true) and re-included > the 2 excluded nodes. Shards remained on two nodes. Re-enabled allocation, > but the shards remain on only two nodes. How can I force the shards back to > all 4 nodes? > > Using ES 0.19.8. > > Cheers, > > Ivan -- ---
**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, 3:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excluded-nodes-not-receiving-shards-when-re-included/9522/3 "2017-07-06T03:06:30Z")