I've one question about shard balancing on ES. Is the algorithm smart enough to figure out the capabilities of ES instance? For instance if one instance has lower heap space than others in a cluster, would it give preference to the bigger instance ?

Shard Balancing based on Available Heap Space

warkolm (Mark Walkom) September 19, 2016, 8:07pm 2

It is not.

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Shard Balancing based on Available Heap Space

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