# HDFS as storage for ElasticSearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hdfs-as-storage-for-elasticsearch/53334>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 20, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hdfs-as-storage-for-elasticsearch/53334 "2016-06-20T15:32:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alessio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Alessio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alessio)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hdfs-as-storage-for-elasticsearch/53334/1 "2016-06-20T15:32:32Z")

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Hi,

Is it possible to use HDFS as storage for Elastisearch index?

I checked that HDFS can be used for backup or snapshot but I would configure ElasticSearch nodes to use directly HDFS for storing index and indexed data without using local storage

Thanks  
Alessio

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**Author:** ![mainec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mainec/32/5557_2.png) [@mainec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mainec)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hdfs-as-storage-for-elasticsearch/53334/2 "2016-06-20T16:17:22Z")

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You might want to look at

> <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/9072>

for an explanation of how to do it, why not to do it and what alternatives there are.

Hope this helps,  
Isabel

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hdfs-as-storage-for-elasticsearch/53334/3 "2017-07-05T22:42:10Z")

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