# Is it possible to unevenly balance shards?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-unevenly-balance-shards/34980>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 18, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-unevenly-balance-shards/34980 "2015-11-18T18:43:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Drew\_Town](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/drew_town/32/44829_2.png) [@Drew\_Town](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Drew_Town)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-unevenly-balance-shards/34980/1 "2015-11-18T18:43:26Z")

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I would like to potentially send more shards to a particular node than other nodes. Is it possible to do something like, send 30% to node A, 30% to node B and 40% to node C?

I've got multiple nodes and one has a bunch more disk space than the others. For older indicies I would like to potentially send some extra shards to the larger node to save space for newer indicies. Is this currently possible?

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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:** [November 18, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-unevenly-balance-shards/34980/2 "2015-11-18T22:56:48Z")

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What version are you on?

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**Author:** ![Drew\_Town](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/drew_town/32/44829_2.png) [@Drew\_Town](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Drew_Town)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-unevenly-balance-shards/34980/3 "2015-11-19T12:36:03Z")

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I am running 2.0.0.

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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:** [November 20, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-unevenly-balance-shards/34980/4 "2015-11-20T06:15:46Z")

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It should do this by default - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/disk-allocator.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/disk-allocator.html)

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-unevenly-balance-shards/34980/5 "2017-07-05T23:37:02Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 11:37pm UTC