What do you mean by decommission, there is no API call for that, unless you meant shutdown?
The easiest way would be to power down one node at a time, waiting for things to rebalance before shutting another down. On 3 December 2014 at 03:01, Noam Gazit <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to reduce my cluster size by 3 data nodes (from 27 to 24). > I issued 3 decommission API calls one after the other and saw their shards > start moving. > I waited for all the shards to relocate, but when I checked to make sure > they can safely be removed I found out that they have new shards on them. > > Is there a limit to the number of nodes that can be decommissioned at the > same time? > Is there a timeout for the decommission definition for a node? > Anything else? > > Thanks for the help, > Noam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/86afdf02-3dff-4495-a555-8f70f9356216%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/86afdf02-3dff-4495-a555-8f70f9356216%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X8%3DLa7uK-Aiykx5Xkm0hy3-dLuY7L_0QOzLRzApCxHQGg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
