Hi, we have a 3 node cluster, with 3 ME nodes. Today I needed to replace one node with another on a new server. I simply shut down ES on the old server, and started ES on the new server. It did join the cluster according to _cat/nodes, but no data/shards started being replicated to it. Cluster healt…

Replacing a cluster node

DavidTurner (David Turner) January 17, 2024, 1:28pm 9

Ok you only have 2 shards, with three nodes there's always going to be one node with zero shards.

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