# Two nodes on one physical machine
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-nodes-on-one-physical-machine/70808
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 6, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-nodes-on-one-physical-machine/70808 "2017-01-06T18:08:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@seth.yes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seth.yes)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-nodes-on-one-physical-machine/70808/1 "2017-01-06T18:08:02Z")
_I know this topic has been discussed before, but please bear with me as my use case is different than anything I've found on the forums._
I have new machines I'm joining to Elasticsearch. They contain about 500GB of SSDs and 5.5TB of HDDs.
I'm hoping to setup a warm/hot architecture as seen in this [blog post](https://www.elastic.co/blog/managing-time-based-indices-efficiently).
The issue comes about when I want to shrink a hot index, thereby reallocating it from the SSDs (one mount pointed to /elasticsearch/hot/) to the HDDs (another mount pointed to /elasticsearch/warm/). It appears I need two nodes running on the same machine in order to perform this operation and utilize both the warm and hot storage.
Is this supported? Would I be better off Dockerizing my ES instances? Any help is greatly appreciated.
ES: 5.1.1
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-nodes-on-one-physical-machine/70808/2 "2017-01-06T23:05:32Z")
> [@seth.yes](#):
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> Is this supported?
Yes.
> [@seth.yes](#):
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> Would I be better off Dockerizing my ES instances?
If that works for you, it makes sense 🙂
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### Author:  [@seth.yes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seth.yes)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-nodes-on-one-physical-machine/70808/3 "2017-01-06T23:29:13Z")
Thanks @warkolm. I'd prefer to use the native Elasticsearch functionality. Do you have a link to how I go about setting this up? I'm not too familiar with Docker at the moment..
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-nodes-on-one-physical-machine/70808/4 "2017-01-07T04:50:50Z")
Have a read through [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/setup.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/setup.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-nodes-on-one-physical-machine/70808/5 "2017-02-04T04:50:58Z")
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