# Looking for some basic pointers for building a new elasticsearch cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-some-basic-pointers-for-building-a-new-elasticsearch-cluster/41546>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 11, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-some-basic-pointers-for-building-a-new-elasticsearch-cluster/41546 "2016-02-11T19:02:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![karl2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b4bc9f/32.png) [@karl2k](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karl2k)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-some-basic-pointers-for-building-a-new-elasticsearch-cluster/41546/1 "2016-02-11T19:02:23Z")

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Looking to deploy a cluster that will consist of 2 physical servers running debian. Anticipating 1500EPS and need about 3 months retention. Each server will have about 70TB of space  
Walk me through the basics, I understand that a minimum of 3 nodes is suggested to avoid split brain. Can install more than 1 node on a physical server? or is this a bad idea and I need more hardware?  
A shard hold an index and an index can live across multiple shards. can a shard hold multiple indexes?

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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, 11:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-some-basic-pointers-for-building-a-new-elasticsearch-cluster/41546/2 "2017-07-05T23:17:01Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 11:17pm UTC