# Provisioning the cluster using Rally

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provisioning-the-cluster-using-rally/157845>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** rally\
**Created:** [November 22, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provisioning-the-cluster-using-rally/157845 "2018-11-22T09:49:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![hym](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hym/32/22399_2.png) [@hym](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hym)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provisioning-the-cluster-using-rally/157845/1 "2018-11-22T09:49:25Z")

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Hi all,  
Is there any way to ask ESRally to establish the cluster ( **cloud or on-prem** ) of more than one node?

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provisioning-the-cluster-using-rally/157845/2 "2018-11-30T09:21:37Z")

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Hi,

indeed there is. See our docs for an [example](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/stable/recipes.html#benchmarking-a-remote-cluster). There are a few limitations tha you should be aware of though:

1. You need to spin up the machines yourself. Rally can only start and stop Elasticsearch
2. You need to start a Rally daemon on each of those machines before-hand (see docs)
3. The cluster nodes cannot have different roles, e.g. you cannot setup dedicated master nodes with this or spin up a hot-warm architecture.

The feature is meant only for simple use cases where all nodes have the same configuration. If you need something more complex I suggest you spin up the cluster yourself (or with the help of configuration management tools) and use the benchmark-only pipeline in Rally.

Daniel

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provisioning-the-cluster-using-rally/157845/3 "2018-12-28T09:21:40Z")

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