# Running with es1.7 and es 2.1 in ONE cluster

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-with-es1-7-and-es-2-1-in-one-cluster/37842
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 23, 2015, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-with-es1-7-and-es-2-1-in-one-cluster/37842 "2015-12-23T10:17:33Z")
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### Author: ![vus520](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vus520/32/6801_2.png) [@vus520](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vus520)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2015, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-with-es1-7-and-es-2-1-in-one-cluster/37842/1 "2015-12-23T10:17:33Z")

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i have ten nodes (elasticsearch-1.7.2, logstash-1.5.4, kibana-4.1.2-linux-x64) and it's running well.

Now i want to add some nodes with newest elk version (elasticsearch-2.1.1, logstash-2.1.1, kibana-4.3.1-linux-x64). so there will have multiple version es in ONE cluster.

Is this ok ? Will this have a problem?

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2015, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-with-es1-7-and-es-2-1-in-one-cluster/37842/2 "2015-12-23T12:41:01Z")

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That is not possible. All Elasticsearch nodes within a cluster need to be the same version.

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-with-es1-7-and-es-2-1-in-one-cluster/37842/3 "2015-12-23T21:50:09Z")

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You can run different versions if you are doing a rolling upgrade on the same major version.

But you cannot run different major versions like you are wanting to do. An upgrade from 1.X to 2.X is a complete cluster restart.

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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: [July 5, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-with-es1-7-and-es-2-1-in-one-cluster/37842/4 "2017-07-05T23:28:59Z")

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