It's not recommended to run an Elasticsearch cluster across geographically dispersed locations.
You cannot assign both primaries and replicas to a single node, it defeats the purpose! So it's as design. On 7 January 2015 at 14:08, Mathew D <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've encountered some unexpected behaviour during my DR testing which I'm > trying to explain. > > I have a 3-node geographically-separated cluster with the following > settings: > > - index.number_of_shards=5 > - index.number_of_replicas=2 > - discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes: 2 > > I use number_of_replicas=2 for durability, so that each node will contain > a full set to data (meaning I can lose 2 of my 3 nodes without losing any > data). > > However I am finding that if I shut down 2 nodes, after adjusting > minimum_master_nodes on the remaining node to 1 and restarting that node, > the cluster stays yellow with all shards unassigned. They remain in the > unassigned state until I manually reduce number_of_replicas to down 1 or > 0. Once number_of_replicas <= number of nodes, the shards reassign and the > cluster goes green. Just wondering if this behaviour is as designed? > > Regards, > Mat > > > > -- > 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/abb0e7cd-c11a-4914-a98f-70d68c1d17be%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/abb0e7cd-c11a-4914-a98f-70d68c1d17be%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/CAEYi1X99BqEA%2BbkAF63K9OygEgU84BD-YJV7rwQ0YkXjm-VFwg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
