I have a ES cluster divided in two racks. I wanted to have dedicated master-eligible nodes. I know the recommendation is having minimum_master_nodes set to N/2 + 1. I want to establish an adequate value for N. I've read also multiple recommendations on having N as an odd number but that's not an op…

Optimal number of master nodes in a two racks cluster

alienmind (Jaime López) June 5, 2017, 8:16am 3

Thanks for your response @bleskes

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