Multiple nodes on one machine

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Hi,

I'm a bit stuck with trying to run several elasticsearch nodes (of the
same cluster) on one machine. From a few posts I found this should be
possible, so could someone maybe give a hint on how configuration has
to be adapted to run two nodes on one machine? How is discovery
handled in this case?

Thanks, Andrej

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On Apr 10, 7:21 am, Andrej Rosenheinrich
andrej.rosenheinr...@unister.de wrote:

I'm a bit stuck with trying to run several elasticsearch nodes (of the
same cluster) on one machine. From a few posts I found this should be
possible, so could someone maybe give a hint on how configuration has
to be adapted to run two nodes on one machine? How is discovery
handled in this case?

Running multiple nodes on one machine doesn't seem to require any
special configuration, you just start multiple instances. The Java
Client doesn't seem to have trouble with nodes coming and going, but
if you use the REST API and the first node is shut down, it looks like
there is no longer anyone listening on port 9200 until you start
another node.

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I agree with Eric, running two nodes on one machine is not much different
from running them on multiple machines. You just start elasticsearch twice
and these two nodes should be able to find each other using multicast
discovery. If it doesn't work, you might be running into firewall issues.
Multicast discovery is using group 224.2.2.4 and port 54328.
Try opening this port and see if it fixes the issue.

If it works, you will be able to find the second node running on the port
9201. When a node starts it is trying to use first available port in
9200-9300 range. If you start both services from the same directory, the
second node will be using ELASTICSEARCH_HOME/data/elasticsearch/nodes/1 as
its data directory.

On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:01:22 PM UTC-4, Eric Jain wrote:

On Apr 10, 7:21 am, Andrej Rosenheinrich
andrej.rosenheinr...@unister.de wrote:

I'm a bit stuck with trying to run several elasticsearch nodes (of the
same cluster) on one machine. From a few posts I found this should be
possible, so could someone maybe give a hint on how configuration has
to be adapted to run two nodes on one machine? How is discovery
handled in this case?

Running multiple nodes on one machine doesn't seem to require any
special configuration, you just start multiple instances. The Java
Client doesn't seem to have trouble with nodes coming and going, but
if you use the REST API and the first node is shut down, it looks like
there is no longer anyone listening on port 9200 until you start
another node.

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Hi Andrej,
It looks like a few people already provided with information.
I have a Q for you: how come you want to run multiple nodes on the same
cluster? What's the use-case?

You may also be interested in this poll on this very topic:

Otis

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On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 10:21:12 AM UTC-4, Andrej Rosenheinrich wrote:

Hi,

I'm a bit stuck with trying to run several elasticsearch nodes (of the
same cluster) on one machine. From a few posts I found this should be
possible, so could someone maybe give a hint on how configuration has
to be adapted to run two nodes on one machine? How is discovery
handled in this case?

Thanks, Andrej