I have a cluster with six nodes. The nodes are in different data centers,
but I don't think that matters, as the connectivity is beefy and thick. I
have turned multicast off and unicast on. Each node knows about all the
others explicitly. When I bring up a visualization of the cluster using the
Standard response to this is ES is not built for multi DC clustering, but
as long as you are aware you are of that then it's fine.
Have you looked at
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-modules-allocation.html
?
Regards,
Mark Walkom
Infrastructure
