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Learning Elasticsearch
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Learning Elasticsearch

by Abhishek Andhavarapu
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
404 pages
8h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Six shards with one replica

Let's now recreate the same esintroduction index with six shards and one replica, meaning the index will have 6 primary shards and 6 replica shards, a total of 12 shards. Since we have three nodes (servers) and twelve shards, each node will now contain four shards. The esintroduction index is split between six shards across three nodes. The green squares represent shards in the following figure.

The solid border represents primary shards, and replicas are the dotted squares:

As we discussed before, the index is distributed into multiple shards across multiple nodes. In a distributed environment, a node/server can ...

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