# Issues in migrating ES 1.4.4 to ES 6.4.2

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-in-migrating-es-1-4-4-to-es-6-4-2/168852>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 18, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-in-migrating-es-1-4-4-to-es-6-4-2/168852 "2019-02-18T14:53:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Animesh\_Agarwal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/animesh_agarwal/32/80330_2.png) [@Animesh\_Agarwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Animesh_Agarwal)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-in-migrating-es-1-4-4-to-es-6-4-2/168852/1 "2019-02-18T14:53:17Z")

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Hi Team,

I am facing couple of issues when migrating data from 1.4 to 6.4.2. Made few changes to make the settings and mappings to make it compatible with 6.4.2 ( removal of mapping types and using **text** and **keyword** appropriately instead of **string** datatype)

I am running ES 1.4 on 5 Node cluster with 2GB allocated to Elasticsearch where as for 6.4 I am using a 3 Node cluster with 16GB allocated to elasticsearch out of 32GB.

There are close to **1500** indices with one shard and one replica for each index.

After migrating to 6.4 using the **reindex** API, I observe that

1. The disk space occupied by all the indices for the 6.4 Cluster is 10GB ( combined all the nodes)  
where as it occupies only 3GB for the 1.4.4 cluster.
2. 1.4 Cluster works only with 2GB allocated to ES where as we require close to 16GB for 6.4  
cluster

Basically the 6.4 cluster requires considerable memory for elasticsearch and the size of the indices has also grown up significantly. Is there a major change in higher versions that is causing this issue or am I missing out on something?

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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:** [March 18, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-in-migrating-es-1-4-4-to-es-6-4-2/168852/2 "2019-03-18T14:57:33Z")

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