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Clarify docs around disk capacity expectation. (elastic#115745)
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Make it explicit that es expects disks to have the same capacity across all the nodes in the same data tier.
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idegtiarenko authored Nov 11, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -37,9 +37,8 @@ TIP: The performance of an {es} node is often limited by the performance of the
For example hardware profiles, refer to Elastic Cloud's {cloud}/ec-reference-hardware.html[instance configurations].
Review our recommendations for optimizing your storage for <<indexing-use-faster-hardware,indexing>> and <<search-use-faster-hardware,search>>.

IMPORTANT: {es} generally expects nodes within a data tier to share the same
hardware profile. Variations not following this recommendation should be
carefully architected to avoid <<hotspotting,hot spotting>>.
IMPORTANT: {es} assumes nodes within a data tier share the same hardware profile (such as CPU, RAM, disk capacity).
Data tiers with unequally resourced nodes have a higher risk of <<hotspotting,hot spotting>>.

The way data tiers are used often depends on the data's category:

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