# How can i increase Nodes and how to configure Replicas and shards

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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 14, 2018, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-increase-nodes-and-how-to-configure-replicas-and-shards/119733 "2018-02-14T06:34:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![saineshwar\_bageri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saineshwar_bageri/32/32688_2.png) [@saineshwar\_bageri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saineshwar_bageri)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-increase-nodes-and-how-to-configure-replicas-and-shards/119733/1 "2018-02-14T06:34:44Z")

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I have only one Node in elastic Search how can i increase Nodes and how to configure Replicas and shards

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**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:** [February 14, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-increase-nodes-and-how-to-configure-replicas-and-shards/119733/2 "2018-02-14T06:46:46Z")

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Start a new machine.  
Install elasticsearch  
Configure elasticsearch.yml  
Start

You also need to restart the first node if you did not set network.hosts

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**Author:** ![saineshwar\_bageri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saineshwar_bageri/32/32688_2.png) [@saineshwar\_bageri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saineshwar_bageri)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 6:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-increase-nodes-and-how-to-configure-replicas-and-shards/119733/3 "2018-02-14T06:57:04Z")

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Sir any reference how to configure elasticsearch.yml.

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**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:** [February 14, 2018, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-increase-nodes-and-how-to-configure-replicas-and-shards/119733/4 "2018-02-14T07:28:17Z")

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Did you look at the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html)?

There is a very big section about installing elasticsearch: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup.html)

And this will lead you to this page: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/important-settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/important-settings.html)

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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:** [March 14, 2018, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-increase-nodes-and-how-to-configure-replicas-and-shards/119733/5 "2018-03-14T07:28:26Z")

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