As a followup, any ratio guidelines for indexing nodes vs dedicated masters. From what I can tell, it wouldn't make much sense to run with only one-dedicated master node; if that node goes down, your whole cluster becomes unavailable.
On Monday, August 11, 2014 2:18:08 PM UTC-4, Matt Hughes wrote: > > Lots of ES best practice articles recommend having dedicated master > nodes. Specifically, that would involve setting these flags: > > node.master: true > node.data: false > > > Say, you had 7 index nodes and 3 master nodes ( > https://blog.hipchat.com/2013/10/16/how-hipchat-scales-to-1-billion-messages/) > > in your cluster. Only one of those three master-eligible nodes are going > to be elected master; what do the other two do? Do they just exist for > resiliency for when the elected master goes down? Do they literally not > have any other role when not elected? > -- 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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a3edb88a-8bfc-4cd6-bcb6-95cb29855921%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
