You could do this, but it's a lot of manual overhead to have to deal with. However ES does have some disk space awareness during allocation, take a look at http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/index-modules-allocation.html#disk
On 15 January 2015 at 10:57, Matías Waisgold <mwaisg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi is there any setting that I can put to ES that it automatically assigns > shards that are unassigned but never ever rebalance the cluster? > I´ve found several issues when rebalancing and prefer to do it manually. > If I set cluster.routing.allocation.enable to "none" nothing happens. > If I set it to "all" then it starts rebalancing. > > Is it ok to combine cluster.routing.allocation.allow_rebalance to "none" > and cluster.routing.allocation.enable to "all". > > The issue is mainly because we are running low on disk and when that > happens elasticsearch removes all shards from an instance, that doesn´t > care about cluster.routing.allocation.cluster_concurrent_rebalance and > starts moving shards like crazy around the entire cluster, filling the > storage on other instances in the way that it will never stop balancing. > > Kind regards > > -- > 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/666a4d70-2497-4a2b-8c5e-774c7d0617b7%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/666a4d70-2497-4a2b-8c5e-774c7d0617b7%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 elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X8KXKpmnAPWvr8a_Mgny75KkkKxRFP_bJVhQL20bhR0UQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
