# How do people usually scale out the elasticsearch cluster architecture?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-people-usually-scale-out-the-elasticsearch-cluster-architecture/68968>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 14, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-people-usually-scale-out-the-elasticsearch-cluster-architecture/68968 "2016-12-14T05:30:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-people-usually-scale-out-the-elasticsearch-cluster-architecture/68968/1 "2016-12-14T05:30:50Z")

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I would like to know how people generally scale out the elasticsearch cluster.  
I am bit lost with the scale out theory.

I just proposed a 3 node cluster each on 2 Datacenters wrapping up with the tribe node to one of our customer.

DC1  
node1 mdi  
node2 mdi  
node3 mdi  
node4 \* tribe node

DC2  
node1 mdi  
node2 mdi  
node3 mdi

I think next step should be that splitting the dedicated master and data node for future flexibility. But you could also just simply keep adding nodes and increase the "discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes" setting.

I appreciate if someone could give me advice with the scale out theory.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-people-usually-scale-out-the-elasticsearch-cluster-architecture/68968/2 "2016-12-14T05:32:25Z")

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> [@YuWatanabe](#):
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> I think next step should be that splitting the dedicated master and data node for future flexibility

That's the better long term plan, ie around 10 or more nodes.

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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-people-usually-scale-out-the-elasticsearch-cluster-architecture/68968/3 "2016-12-14T05:35:48Z")

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I see. Thanks.

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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:** [January 11, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-people-usually-scale-out-the-elasticsearch-cluster-architecture/68968/4 "2017-01-11T05:36:00Z")

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