# Indezes and Sharding on Cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indezes-and-sharding-on-cluster/220641
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 24, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indezes-and-sharding-on-cluster/220641 "2020-02-24T12:05:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ksremo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ksremo)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indezes-and-sharding-on-cluster/220641/1 "2020-02-24T12:05:29Z")
Hi,
in case we expected 300-500gb data per day and we have 4 data nodes in cluster.
We want to create 1 index per day.
How many Shards are wise to split the index off?
4 Shards to balance the load to the 4 Nodes?
8 Shards to balance the load and be sure that 1 Shards doesnt grow much bigger than 50gb?
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### Author:  [@rugenl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rugenl)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indezes-and-sharding-on-cluster/220641/2 "2020-02-25T04:07:41Z")
Having all 4 nodes indexing is probably a good idea, so if you aren't replicating, 4 shards would be good. Recommended shard size is 50G, ILM rollover at 200G would automatically manage your shard size as an alternative to daily indices.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indezes-and-sharding-on-cluster/220641/3 "2020-03-24T04:07:44Z")
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