# Uniform distribution shards?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uniform-distribution-shards/70101
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 28, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uniform-distribution-shards/70101 "2016-12-28T02:22:07Z")
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### Author: ![famoss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/67e7ee/32.png) [@famoss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/famoss)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uniform-distribution-shards/70101/1 "2016-12-28T02:22:07Z")

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Today,i add a node into a running cluster,and all shards be assigned to the new node after create new index.I have a lot of shards already,so `reblance` shards need a long time?

Can i use some config to make the new shards evenly distributed on all nodes?

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uniform-distribution-shards/70101/2 "2016-12-28T03:28:38Z")

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Balancing happens automatically and should be even.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uniform-distribution-shards/70101/3 "2017-01-25T03:28:53Z")

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