# Renaming clusters in ES 5.x **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 14, 2017, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/renaming-clusters-in-es-5-x/93165 "2017-07-14T10:31:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hio77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eb9ed0/32.png) [@hio77](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hio77)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/renaming-clusters-in-es-5-x/93165/1 "2017-07-14T10:31:20Z")
Hi there, Have been messing with ELK for a few months now, and finally getting around to deploying. being that i wish to use the server in production, with nodes for SSD/HDD I'm due to expand out of the single VM. So, spun up the new machines to load my data nodes on, started setting things up. Struck me once i changed the existing node with about 30GB of data, soon as i change the [Cluster.name](http://Cluster.name), the data is gone. Now logic says, quick google to the rescue! - it would seem the clustername in the data folder was removed as of 5.x [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/\_path\_to\_data\_on\_disk.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_path_to_data_on_disk.html) At this point I'm stuck wondering, do i just roll with the default name and cringe just a little, do i migrate data then migrate back to the intended master/ingest? I must note, before anyone jumps to it... Stack is purely used within the home, server monitoring, modem monitoring etc Any ideas on changing the name would be appreciated 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/renaming-clusters-in-es-5-x/93165/2 "2017-08-11T10:31:21Z")
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