Shards & Replicas in Cluster

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I am using a 2 node cluster both are master and data.

ES version : 2.3.3

Whenever I pushed data from logstash to cluster with a new index name its creating 5 shards (Default) and 5 replicas. But its creating 2 shards primary & 3 replica in one server and 3 primary & 2 replica in one server. But I want to maintain all primary in one server & all replica in another one. How to do this??? Is this the best way to maintain in different servers???

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You cannot do this.

3

What I have to do if I want to remove my replica server from my cluster.

I am chaging cluster.routing.allocationbut its not becoming primary(which are showing as replica now). What to do in this case..

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There is no such thing as a replica server in ES. The data is spread across all nodes as evenly as possible.

If you remove a server, any primary shards on the server that is no longer there will be replicated on the other server, so ES will see that and handle it appropriately.