I understand there's no point assigning primaries *and* replicas to a single node, but in my case ES won't even allocate a primary (until I reduce the number of replicas)
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 4:58:58 PM UTC+13, Mark Walkom wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> > 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] <javascript:>. >> 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/74ae6254-e4c5-4504-8bee-cd337666bea4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
