Today I added a new ElasticSearch data node to our two node cluster and was pleasantly surprised when disk usage on the original two nodes dropped by a third. Turns out ElasticSearch distributes shards across all the data nodes. Very cool!
Today I added a new ElasticSearch data node to our two node cluster and was pleasantly surprised when disk usage on the original two nodes dropped by a third. Turns out ElasticSearch distributes shards across all the data nodes. Very cool!