I am planning to develop an elasticsearch cluster to stand up a very massive index. The main usecase is to index documents and search using keywords. We estimate the size of the index to be 16TB. So if I keep single shard size to 50GB ( I read 50GB is ideal) , I am looking at 320 primary shards. In…

Max shard size for a very large single index

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Max shard size for a very large single index

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