# Xpack basic license adding nodes?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-basic-license-adding-nodes/71661
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 15, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-basic-license-adding-nodes/71661 "2017-01-15T22:55:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jeriel20](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jeriel20)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-basic-license-adding-nodes/71661/1 "2017-01-15T22:55:25Z")
Can you add more data notes to a cluster that has the basic license? I need to add more nodes to my cluster but I'm having issues joining new nodes to my existing cluster.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-basic-license-adding-nodes/71661/2 "2017-01-15T23:28:39Z")
You can, just make sure they have X-Pack installed on them too 🙂
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### Author:  [@jeriel20](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jeriel20)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-basic-license-adding-nodes/71661/3 "2017-01-16T11:09:18Z")
Okay cool. Looks like my initial issue was the network not the elasticsearch nodes. Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/xpack-basic-license-adding-nodes/71661/4 "2017-02-13T11:09:18Z")
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