Hello everyone,
I've been asked to move Elasticsearch's data path from default path, to a new dedicated volume.
I still do not have any detail (except that cluster is running on RHEL VMs), but i'm afraid that the volume is going to be provided through an NFS share.
I know that data on NFS kills indexing performance, but besides performance, do i need to care about something else? e.g. Indexes getting corrupted or similar etc...
There are some serious consequences on having data on an NFS share?
Beside that, which are going to be the steps to actually do this migration?
Assuming that i already have the new volume mounted and available on my nodes, these are the steps that i would do:
Cluster level:
- Disable shard allocation
For every Elasticsearch node:
- Shut down ES
- Copy/mv data to the new volume (maybe using rsync)
- Amend ES config file with correct data.path
- Start ES
Once all nodes are up and back running
Cluster level:
- Re-enable shard allocation
What do you think about that?
is is enough?
Do i have to completely take off the cluster?
Many thanks!
Regards,
Alessandro