I have a huge 300 node Elasticsearch cluster and the machines added over the years are with different configuration. By default, elasticsearch tries to make sure equal number of shards exists on each and every node of the cluster. Since, my node size is non-uniform, I want to limit number of shards…

Limit number of shards on a particular Elasticsearch node

warkolm (Mark Walkom) February 11, 2021, 3:18am 2

What version are you on?

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