Default shard allocation (where new shards are created)

2014-12-19 Thread Robin Clarke
My current setup is with 10 nodes with ample space on spinning disks, and 20 nodes with smaller SSD disks. I would like my workflow to be that all data is initially indexed on the SSD nodes, after 10 days is reallocated to the spinning disks, after a further 10 days the index is closed, and

Re: Default shard allocation (where new shards are created)

2014-12-19 Thread Nikolas Everett
Check what curator is doing with your index. Its probably fiddling with index.routing.allocation.include and index.routing.allocation.exclude. When you create the new index just set it pick up the ssd tag. You'll have to make sure that curator knows how to strip that tag when the time comes to