# Maximum shards per node
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maximum-shards-per-node/273830
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 24, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maximum-shards-per-node/273830 "2021-05-24T13:38:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Muna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muna)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maximum-shards-per-node/273830/1 "2021-05-24T13:38:15Z")
Is there any option to disable the max\_shard\_per\_node in cluster settings in Elastic 7.12
as in the older version 6.5 there is no such values.
Elastic 7.12
"cluster" : {
"max\_shards\_per\_node" : "1000"
}
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maximum-shards-per-node/273830/2 "2021-05-24T13:53:03Z")
You should not do this as this setting is there to prevent you from getting into a state where the cluster no longer can operate or be fixed.
If you are migrating and have too many shards I would recommend reducing the shard count before migrating.
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### Author:  [@charles97](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/charles97)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2021, 2:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maximum-shards-per-node/273830/3 "2021-05-25T02:17:54Z")
I was working on development and single node cluster and this helps:
`curl -X PUT X.X.X.X:9200/_cluster/settings -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "persistent": { "cluster.max_shards_per_node": "3000" } }`
Do at your own risk 🙂 , this could lead into shard failure
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maximum-shards-per-node/273830/4 "2021-06-22T02:18:13Z")
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