From d6a23de00273aa19884bdd98ff54d5158940afeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Cho-Lerat Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:12:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update getting-started.asciidoc (#22370) --- docs/reference/getting-started.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/reference/getting-started.asciidoc b/docs/reference/getting-started.asciidoc index 5f39acbade8..0f285ecb13b 100755 --- a/docs/reference/getting-started.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/getting-started.asciidoc @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Replication is important for two primary reasons: To summarize, each index can be split into multiple shards. An index can also be replicated zero (meaning no replicas) or more times. Once replicated, each index will have primary shards (the original shards that were replicated from) and replica shards (the copies of the primary shards). -The number of shards and replicas can be defined per index at the time the index is created. After the index is created, you may change the number of replicas dynamically anytime but you cannot change the number shards after-the-fact. +The number of shards and replicas can be defined per index at the time the index is created. After the index is created, you may change the number of replicas dynamically anytime but you cannot change the number of shards after-the-fact. By default, each index in Elasticsearch is allocated 5 primary shards and 1 replica which means that if you have at least two nodes in your cluster, your index will have 5 primary shards and another 5 replica shards (1 complete replica) for a total of 10 shards per index.