Hybrid node SOs and how to migrate from Windows to Linux

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Hello,

we have a client that runs a 6 node cluster on VMs that runs Windows Server. We have the plan to migrate this cluster to Linux. I was wondering what the easiest approach would be, with zero downtime.

My plan is to bring the Linux VMs up, maybe one at a time, include them in the cluster, migrate shards and turn the windows server down... in the and I would have all my cluster in a Linux environment.

I never thought about this, but I think it is ok to have hybrid node SOs in a cluster? Right?

I also found this question on Stack Overflow in which some approaches are suggested.

What do you think?

Thank you for your thoughts on this

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That'll work fine. When you're working on a data level, Elasticsearch doesn't care about what OS it's running on.

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