- Elastic Cloud Enterprise - Elastic Cloud on your Infrastructure: other versions:
- What Is Elastic Cloud Enterprise?
- Getting Started
- Configuring Your Installation
- Securing Your Installation
- Monitoring Your Installation
- Administering Your Installation
- Getting Started with Deployments
- Administering Deployments
- Change Your Deployment Configuration
- Stop Routing Requests or Pause Nodes
- Stop a Deployment
- Restart a Deployment
- Delete a Deployment
- Work with Snapshots
- Access the Elasticsearch API
- Upgrade Versions
- Editing Your User Settings
- Configure Beats and Logstash with Cloud ID
- Keep Your Clusters Healthy
- Secure Your Clusters
- Manage Your Kibana Instance
- Enable Monitoring (formerly Marvel)
- Enable Graph (Versions before 5.0)
- Connect to Your Cluster
- Troubleshooting
- RESTful API
- Using the API
- API examples
- A first API call: What deployments are there?
- Create a first deployment: Just an Elasticsearch cluster
- Applying a new plan: Resize and add high availability
- Applying a new plan: Checking on progress
- Applying a new deployment configuration: Upgrade
- Enable more stack features: Add Kibana to a deployment
- Dipping a toe into platform automation: Generate a roles token
- Customize your deployment
- Remove unwanted deployment templates and instance configurations
- API reference
- Authentication
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - CRUD
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - CRUD - Configuration
- Get cluster curation settings
- Update cluster curation settings
- Set settings overrides (all instances)
- Set settings overrides
- Set cluster name
- Get cluster metadata
- Set cluster metadata
- Get cluster metadata settings
- Update cluster metadata settings
- Cancel monitoring
- Set monitoring
- Get plan
- Update plan
- Get plan activity
- Cancel pending plan
- Get pending plan
- Set legacy security settings
- Get cluster snapshot settings
- Update cluster snapshot settings
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - Commands
- Search clusters
- Restart cluster
- Resynchronize cluster
- Shut down cluster
- Immediately create a new cluster snapshot
- Move instances (advanced)
- Start all instances
- Stop all instances
- Start maintenance mode all instances
- Stop maintenance mode all instances
- Move instances
- Start instances
- Stop instances
- Start maintenance mode
- Stop maintenance mode
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - Support
- Clusters - Kibana - CRUD
- Clusters - Kibana - CRUD - Configuration
- Clusters - Kibana - Commands
- Search clusters
- Restart cluster
- Resynchronize cluster
- Shut down cluster
- Upgrade cluster
- Move instances (advanced)
- Start all instances
- Stop all instances
- Start maintenance mode all instances
- Stop maintenance mode all instances
- Move instances
- Start instances
- Stop instances
- Start maintenance mode
- Stop maintenance mode
- Deployments - Notes
- Platform
- Platform - Allocators
- Get allocators
- Search allocators
- Delete allocator
- Get allocator
- Resynchronize allocator
- Move clusters
- Move clusters by type
- Start maintenance mode
- Stop maintenance mode
- Get allocator metadata
- Set allocator metadata
- Delete allocator metadata item
- Set allocator metadata item
- Get allocator settings
- Update allocator settings
- Set allocator settings
- Platform - Configuration - Instances - CRUD
- Platform - Configuration - Security
- Platform - Configuration - TLS
- Platform - Constructors
- Platform - License
- Platform - Repository - CRUD
- Platform - Runners
- Stack - Instance Types - CRUD
- Stack - Versions - CRUD
- Templates - Deployments
- Definitions
AllocatedInstanceStatus
AllocatorCapacity
AllocatorCapacityMemory
AllocatorHealthStatus
AllocatorInfo
AllocatorMoveRequest
AllocatorOverview
AllocatorSettings
AllocatorZoneInfo
ApmPlanControlConfiguration
BasicFailedReply
BasicFailedReplyElement
BoolQuery
CapacityConstraintsResource
ChangeSourceInfo
ClusterCommandResponse
ClusterCredentials
ClusterCrudResponse
ClusterCurationSettings
ClusterCurationSpec
ClusterInstanceConfigurationInfo
ClusterInstanceDiskInfo
ClusterInstanceInfo
ClusterInstanceMemoryInfo
ClusterLicenseInfo
ClusterMetadataCpuResourcesSettings
ClusterMetadataInfo
ClusterMetadataResourcesSettings
ClusterMetadataSettings
ClusterPlanStepInfo
ClusterPlanStepLogMessageInfo
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryDefault
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryInfo
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryReference
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryStatic
ClusterSnapshotRequest
ClusterSnapshotResponse
ClusterSnapshotSettings
ClusterSystemAlert
ClusterTopologyInfo
ClusterUpgradeInfo
CompatibleNodeTypesResource
CompatibleVersionResource
ConstructorHealthStatus
ConstructorInfo
ConstructorOverview
CreateElasticsearchClusterRequest
CreateKibanaInCreateElasticsearchRequest
CreateKibanaRequest
DeploymentTemplateInfo
DeploymentTemplateReference
DiscreteSizes
ElasticsearchClusterBlockingIssueElement
ElasticsearchClusterBlockingIssues
ElasticsearchClusterInfo
ElasticsearchClusterInstanceSettingsOverrides
ElasticsearchClusterPlan
ElasticsearchClusterPlanInfo
ElasticsearchClusterPlansInfo
ElasticsearchClusterRole
ElasticsearchClusterSecurityInfo
ElasticsearchClusterSettings
ElasticsearchClusterTopologyElement
ElasticsearchClusterUser
ElasticsearchClustersInfo
ElasticsearchConfiguration
ElasticsearchCuration
ElasticsearchInfo
ElasticsearchMasterElement
ElasticsearchMasterInfo
ElasticsearchMonitoringInfo
ElasticsearchNodeType
ElasticsearchPlanControlConfiguration
ElasticsearchReplicaElement
ElasticsearchScriptTypeSettings
ElasticsearchScriptingUserSettings
ElasticsearchShardElement
ElasticsearchShardsInfo
ElasticsearchSystemSettings
ElasticsearchUserBundle
ElasticsearchUserPlugin
ElevatePermissionsRequest
EmptyResponse
EnrollmentTokenRequest
ExistsQuery
ExternalHyperlink
GrowShrinkStrategyConfig
Hyperlink
IdResponse
InstanceConfiguration
InstanceMoveRequest
InstanceTypeResource
KibanaClusterInfo
KibanaClusterPlan
KibanaClusterPlanInfo
KibanaClusterPlansInfo
KibanaClusterTopologyElement
KibanaClustersInfo
KibanaConfiguration
KibanaPlanControlConfiguration
KibanaSubClusterInfo
KibanaSystemSettings
LegacySecuritySettings
LicenseInfo
LicenseObject
ListEnrollmentTokenElement
ListEnrollmentTokenReply
LoginRequest
LoginState
ManagedMonitoringSettings
MatchQuery
MetadataItem
MetadataItemValue
MetadataItems
MoveApmClusterConfiguration
MoveApmClusterDetails
MoveClustersCommandResponse
MoveClustersDetails
MoveClustersRequest
MoveElasticsearchClusterConfiguration
MoveElasticsearchClusterDetails
MoveKibanaClusterConfiguration
MoveKibanaClusterDetails
NestedQuery
NodeTypeResource
Note
Notes
PlanStrategy
PlatformInfo
PlatformServiceImageInfo
PlatformServiceInfo
PrefixQuery
QueryContainer
QueryStringQuery
RangeQuery
RepositoryConfig
RepositoryConfigs
RequestEnrollmentTokenReply
RestoreSnapshotApiConfiguration
RestoreSnapshotConfiguration
RestoreSnapshotRepoConfiguration
RollingGrowShrinkStrategyConfig
RollingStrategyConfig
RunnerContainerInfo
RunnerInfo
RunnerOverview
RunnerRoleInfo
RunnerRolesInfo
SearchRequest
SnapshotRepositoryConfiguration
SnapshotStatusInfo
StackVersionApmConfig
StackVersionArchiveProcessingError
StackVersionArchiveProcessingResult
StackVersionConfig
StackVersionConfigPost
StackVersionConfigs
StackVersionElasticsearchConfig
StackVersionInstanceCapacityConstraint
StackVersionKibanaConfig
StackVersionMetadata
StackVersionNodeType
StackVersionTemplateFileHash
StackVersionTemplateInfo
TargetElasticsearchCluster
TermQuery
TiebreakerTopologyElement
TlsPublicCertChain
TokenResponse
TopologySize
TransientApmPlanConfiguration
TransientElasticsearchPlanConfiguration
TransientKibanaPlanConfiguration
- Script Reference
- Release notes
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.0.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.0.0
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.5
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.4
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.3
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.2
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.0
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.0.2
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.0.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.0.0
- About This Product
It is time to say goodbye: This version of Elastic Cloud Enterprise has reached end-of-life (EOL) and is no longer supported.
The documentation for this version is no longer being maintained. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Move Nodes or Instances From Allocators
editMove Nodes or Instances From Allocators
editYou might need to move Elasticsearch nodes, Kibana instances, and other components of the Elastic Stack between allocators from time to time for a number of reasons:
- To prepare for removing the allocator role from the first host on which you installed Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
- To avoid downtime during maintenance: You can create a new allocator, move all deployments from an existing allocator to the new one, and then deal with the allocator that needs maintenance.
- To make room on an allocator: You can move some smaller deployments to another allocator if you need additional room for a larger one on an allocator.
- To move deployments after a failure: When host failures happen, you can move all deployments from the affected allocator to a healthy allocator quickly before spending any time on fixing the failure.
When you move all nodes from an existing allocator to the new one, ECE migrates the data to new nodes. The migration can take some time, especially when deployments contain large amounts of data and have a heavy workload. Is your deployment under a heavy workload? You might need to stop routing requests first.
Before You Begin
editBefore you move the nodes and instances that are part of a deployment, you need to make sure that you have sufficient capacity on another allocator. For example: If you have a deployment with a single 32 GB Elasticsearch node and a 4 GB Kibana instance, the allocator that you are moving the deployment to needs to have at least 36 GB of capacity. Note that moving nodes does not actually move the same node onto a different allocator. Under the covers, Elastic Cloud Enterprise creates a new node and then migrates the data for you.
If you followed our recommendation and tagged your allocators to indicate what allocators you want components of the Elastic Stack to run on, the spare capacity you plan to use must be available on an allocator with the same tags. If you did not tag your allocators and edit the default instance configurations, ECE will move nodes and instances to wherever there is space.
When you move all nodes from an existing allocator to the new one, ECE migrates the data to new nodes. The migration can take some time, especially when clusters contain large amounts of data and have a heavy workload. Is your cluster under a heavy workload? You might need to stop routing requests first.
To move nodes from one allocator to another one:
- Log into the Cloud UI.
- From the Platform menu, select Allocators.
- Review the list of all allocators that are part of this installation and look for allocators that are unhealthy or find the allocator that you want to free up.
- Recommended: Put the allocator into maintenance mode before continuing.
- Click the name of an unhealthy allocator and then select Move Nodes from the menu.
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Select the nodes you want and any advanced options that you need. You can move only one type of node at a time.
If you did not enable maintenance mode, set a target allocator under the advanced options when moving nodes to make sure the nodes do not end up on the same allocator again. By default, moving a node moves it to any allocator that has enough capacity.
- Repeat step 6 for each of the node types until no nodes remain on the allocator.
- Optionally, once the nodes have been moved, Delete Allocator.
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