I started out with a single Elasticsearch node (Node1). Version:2.1.0 5 primary shards, 1 replica I have 30+ days of logs in here, the total size of my data on node1 is 340+G. I now intend to add two more nodes to this cluster as I need to quickly start consuming a whole lot more of data into El…

Shard rebalancing on single-node cluster scaling

vgondil April 18, 2016, 5:17am 7

I haven't added the third yet. I understood that its better to add one at a time. Is that not the case? Should I add two new nodes at once?

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