# Unable to create HA with Elasticsearch with 2 master nodes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-ha-with-elasticsearch-with-2-master-nodes/185753
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 14, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-ha-with-elasticsearch-with-2-master-nodes/185753 "2019-06-14T03:25:48Z")
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### Author:  [@Prashant\_Shirsath](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prashant_Shirsath)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-ha-with-elasticsearch-with-2-master-nodes/185753/1 "2019-06-14T03:25:48Z")
I am new to ES. I am trying to set up a cluster on the same machine(Windows)
I have 2 copy of elasticsearch-7.1.1-masterA & elasticsearch-7.1.1-masterB
I am using basic version of ELK.
elasticsearch-7.1.1-masterA has following config elastisearch.yml
cluster.name: MyCluster
node.name: master-node-a
cluster.initial\_master\_nodes: ["master-node-a", "master-node-b"]
discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 1
node.master: true
node.data: true
xpack.security.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate
xpack.security.transport.ssl.keystore.path: elastic-certificates.p12
xpack.security.transport.ssl.truststore.path: elastic-certificates.p12
and elasticsearch-7.1.1-masterB has following config in elasticsearch.yml
cluster.name: MyCluster
node.name: master-node-b
cluster.initial\_master\_nodes: ["master-node-a", "master-node-b"]
discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 1
node.master: true
node.data: true
xpack.security.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate
xpack.security.transport.ssl.keystore.path: elastic-certificates.p12
xpack.security.transport.ssl.truststore.path: elastic-certificates.p12
So I have 2 masters eligible node. When I am starting my cluster both node get connected and one of them is becoming master node.Assume that MasterA has become master node and masterB is master eligible node. When I am stopping MasterA node then I am expecting MasterB should become master node and elastic keep on running, but I get NodeClosedException.
When 2 node cluster is up I also run kibana, but when master node down kibana also started loging expection.
Please help me out how could I test and create 2 or 3 node cluster and test High availability.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-ha-with-elasticsearch-with-2-master-nodes/185753/2 "2019-06-14T04:55:46Z")
A 2-node Elasticsearch cluster can never be highly available as Elasticsearch relies on consensus and requires a majority of master eligible nodes to be present in order to function (majority of 2 is 2). You therefore need to add a master eligible node to the cluster.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-ha-with-elasticsearch-with-2-master-nodes/185753/3 "2019-07-12T04:55:49Z")
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