# Set up load balance for ES cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-up-load-balance-for-es-cluster/192062>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 24, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-up-load-balance-for-es-cluster/192062 "2019-07-24T14:55:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![spdoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@spdoes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spdoes)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-up-load-balance-for-es-cluster/192062/1 "2019-07-24T14:55:12Z")

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I have a ES cluster with all nodes in same sub-network, so if this network goes down, my load balance will redirect traffic to a different IP, so this IP should be a extra node in the cluster  
HOWEVER in regular use I dont want to use this extra node because it is geographically very distant and a lower resource machine.

In other words I want to keep this node inactive and activate it only in main nodes in cluster goes down ?

Is this something possible ?

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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:** [August 21, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-up-load-balance-for-es-cluster/192062/2 "2019-08-21T14:55:14Z")

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Closed on August 21, 2019, 2:55pm UTC

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