# Planning a new cluster installation **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 3, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/planning-a-new-cluster-installation/221924 "2020-03-03T17:02:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Burga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Burga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Burga)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/planning-a-new-cluster-installation/221924/1 "2020-03-03T17:02:40Z")
Hi , I'm planning a new Elasticsearch cluster installation I want to build 3 master nodes (4 cpu , 8g ) 3 data nodes (4 cpu, 16g) 2 logstash nodes(4 cpu , 8g) 2 Ingest nodes --\> (do I need it ?) Is this a correct plan(by the best practice and experience)? Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![ahmed\_charafouddine](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ahmed_charafouddine/32/45129_2.png) [@ahmed\_charafouddine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ahmed_charafouddine)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/planning-a-new-cluster-installation/221924/2 "2020-03-03T17:16:09Z")
Will it all depend on what you want to do with it? how many data should be skocked / number of requests / etc etc. ---
**Author:** ![Burga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Burga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Burga)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/planning-a-new-cluster-installation/221924/3 "2020-03-03T18:39:19Z")
Thanks, you are right the capacity I will calculate later, what I meant is if a dtructer is right, 3 master nodes or maybe build master and data as the same node, what is the benefits in the ingest nodes... ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/planning-a-new-cluster-installation/221924/4 "2020-03-31T18:39:22Z")
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