# Three nodes cluster without quorum
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/three-nodes-cluster-without-quorum/310632
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 26, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/three-nodes-cluster-without-quorum/310632 "2022-07-26T11:33:11Z")
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### Author:  [@vnovotny98](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vnovotny98)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/three-nodes-cluster-without-quorum/310632/1 "2022-07-26T11:33:11Z")
Hello.
I am new here in this community.
I have a three nodes cluster but two nodes are on the same virt and one on another.
I need to set them like three masters and three data nodes. When I am updating the virt I need to shut down two of the cluster nodes and I lost quorum and elasticsearch stopped, how can I avoid that when **discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes** is deprecated since 6 where I last worked.
thank you for help!
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/three-nodes-cluster-without-quorum/310632/2 "2022-07-26T12:18:52Z")
You must remove the master nodes following the process described in the manual:
> **[Add and remove nodes in your cluster | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.14\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/add-elasticsearch-nodes.html#modules-discovery-removing-nodes)**
Note that you effectively have a [two-zone cluster](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/high-availability-cluster-design-large-clusters.html#high-availability-cluster-design-two-zones) which is not possible to make resilient to the loss of either "zone".
> [@vnovotny98](#):
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> since 6 where I last worked.
It didn't work in v6 either - it mostly looked like it did but doing this would occasionally result in data loss.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/three-nodes-cluster-without-quorum/310632/3 "2022-08-23T12:19:40Z")
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