# How to control how the indices distribute its shards to the data node?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-how-the-indices-distribute-its-shards-to-the-data-node/231468
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-how-the-indices-distribute-its-shards-to-the-data-node/231468 "2020-05-07T07:03:13Z")
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### Author:  [@lusynda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lusynda)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-how-the-indices-distribute-its-shards-to-the-data-node/231468/1 "2020-05-07T07:03:13Z")
Hi all
I have now a total of 4 data node, 1 i just recently added to the cluster. So now some of the indices in the cluster are moving its shard to that new node that i installed. but some how they are not evently distributed. For example, there is an index that i config with 12 shard, so i imagine that each node now will have 3 shard in total, but they are not moving the way i wanted at all.
Is there a way for me to control how the indices will move it shard around or or some command that i can use to move the shard to i node that i want.
Thank in advance!
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-how-the-indices-distribute-its-shards-to-the-data-node/231468/2 "2020-05-07T23:44:32Z")
> [@lusynda](#):
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> For example, there is an index that i config with 12 shard, so i imagine that each node now will have 3 shard in total, but they are not moving the way i wanted at all.
What is it doing then?
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### Author:  [@lusynda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lusynda)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-how-the-indices-distribute-its-shards-to-the-data-node/231468/3 "2020-05-08T01:53:56Z")
Well it seem like what happen to me just because the node was newly added to our cluster so the shard movement is a little bit off.
But still i want to be able to tell which shard is going to which node by hand since not all data node in my cluster have the same performance. i want the important shard to go to the high performance shard and the less important goes to the slower one
Is that possible?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-how-the-indices-distribute-its-shards-to-the-data-node/231468/4 "2020-05-08T02:04:16Z")
You can use allocation filtering on the index level to do that - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/shard-allocation-filtering.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/shard-allocation-filtering.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-control-how-the-indices-distribute-its-shards-to-the-data-node/231468/5 "2020-06-05T02:18:01Z")
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