# Ideal no. of shards and replicas

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ideal-no-of-shards-and-replicas/93558>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 18, 2017, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ideal-no-of-shards-and-replicas/93558 "2017-07-18T11:03:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![hasan\_sharekhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eada6e/32.png) [@hasan\_sharekhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hasan_sharekhan)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ideal-no-of-shards-and-replicas/93558/1 "2017-07-18T11:03:01Z")

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I have created 3 nodes on single server at single geolocation  
Planning to add 2 more servers in next 6 months at 2 different geolocation  
and 4 more servers within 1 year at 4 different geolocation

so in total there will be 3 nodes X 7 servers = 21 nodes

Currently whenever new index is created by default with 5 shards and 1 replica.

Please suggest default no. of shards and replicas are ideal and/or enough for this setup.

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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:** [August 15, 2017, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ideal-no-of-shards-and-replicas/93558/2 "2017-08-15T11:03:07Z")

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