Setting up a node

Elasticsearch allows customizing several parameters in an installation. In this recipe, we'll see the most used ones to define where to store our data and to improve the overall performances.

Getting ready

You need a working Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe and a simple text editor to change configuration files.

How to do it...

The steps required for setting up a simple node are as follows:

• Open config/elasticsearch.yml with an editor of your choice.

• Setup the directories that store your server data.

• For Linux or Mac OS X type the following command:

        path.conf: /opt/data/es/conf
        path.data: /opt/data/es/data1,/opt2/data/data2
        path.work: /opt/data/work 
        path.logs: /opt/data/logs 
        path.plugins: /opt/data/plugins 

• For Windows type the following command:

        path.conf: c:\Elasticsearch\conf 
        path.data: c:\Elasticsearch\data 
        path.work: c:\Elasticsearch\work 
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