June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
404 pages
8h 22m
English
We will start with an index called esintroduction with three shards and zero replicas. The distribution of the shards in a three node cluster is as follows:

In the above screenshot, shards are represented by the green squares. We will talk about replicas towards the end of this discussion. Since we have three nodes(servers) and three shards, the shards are evenly distributed across all three nodes. Each node will contain one shard. As you index your documents into the esintroduction index, data is spread across the three shards.
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