Removing nodes from the cluster

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Hi guys,

I have a cluster with 5 nodes, I want removed 2 nodes from cluster.
What I'm doing is, before shutdown a node I run a gateway snapshot call,
wait it, and so shut it down , however this action doesn't guarantee that
all shards live in others nodes.

I'd like to know how what's the most accurate way to remove a node from the
cluster keeping shards in the other nodes?

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Shairon Toledo
http://hashcode.me

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You can use shard allocation features for this

There was bunch of nice talks mentioning this feature at Berlin Buzzwords
2012 this year. Check the talk. One of them was ... ehm ... featuring two
clowns (plus one nice gentleman in the audience) trying to demo this
feature live: http://vimeo.com/album/1968418/video/44718093 (shard
allocation feature is show in the end on the show)

Regards,
Lukas

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Shairon Toledo shairon.toledo@gmail.comwrote:

Hi guys,

I have a cluster with 5 nodes, I want removed 2 nodes from cluster.
What I'm doing is, before shutdown a node I run a gateway snapshot call,
wait it, and so shut it down , however this action doesn't guarantee that
all shards live in others nodes.

I'd like to know how what's the most accurate way to remove a node from
the cluster keeping shards in the other nodes?

--

Shairon Toledo
http://hashcode.me

3

Good talk Lukas, and nice live-fix for ES multicasting :slight_smile:

I tested allocation api last night, it took a time to remove a node, I got
best performance doing /optimize, /snapshot and ...exclude._ip, it worked
faster.

Thank you,

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Lukáš Vlček lukas.vlcek@gmail.com wrote:

You can use shard allocation features for this
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There was bunch of nice talks mentioning this feature at Berlin Buzzwords
2012 this year. Check the talk. One of them was ... ehm ... featuring two
clowns (plus one nice gentleman in the audience) trying to demo this
feature live: http://vimeo.com/album/1968418/video/44718093 (shard
allocation feature is show in the end on the show)

Regards,
Lukas

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Shairon Toledo shairon.toledo@gmail.comwrote:

Hi guys,

I have a cluster with 5 nodes, I want removed 2 nodes from cluster.
What I'm doing is, before shutdown a node I run a gateway snapshot call,
wait it, and so shut it down , however this action doesn't guarantee that
all shards live in others nodes.

I'd like to know how what's the most accurate way to remove a node from
the cluster keeping shards in the other nodes?

--

Shairon Toledo
http://hashcode.me

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Shairon Toledo