# Shard reside and Replica reside Logic In elasticsearch Cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 16, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-reside-and-replica-reside-logic-in-elasticsearch-cluster/69297 "2016-12-16T13:55:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![balubollam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@balubollam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/balubollam)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-reside-and-replica-reside-logic-in-elasticsearch-cluster/69297/1 "2016-12-16T13:55:08Z")
Hi Everyone, Can anyone please explain how the shards and indices are distributed for the particular index......... Is there any logic for that?.. In most of the documents it is like elastic-search default feature of elasticsearch ...... Lets say i have an index ...Default it have 5 shards and 10replicas....We have a cluster with 4 nodes.....And in our cluster all the replicas are on same node....and 5 shards are in remaining 3 nodes.. Can anyone please explain how the shard residing and replicas take place Thanks in advance Balu ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-reside-and-replica-reside-logic-in-elasticsearch-cluster/69297/2 "2016-12-16T14:32:15Z")
Having replicas on the same node does not really matter. Why do you think it's important? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-reside-and-replica-reside-logic-in-elasticsearch-cluster/69297/3 "2017-01-13T14:32:40Z")
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