The Rebalance The Cluster documentation states:
.. If you add a new peer that does not currently have any bucket copies, rebalancing itself will not cause the peer to gain any copies.
So my question is, what if you want to rebalance buckets across all the search peers? For example, say you have 4 search peers that are at 80% utilization and you want to bring on a 5th peer? (Splunk suggest keeping the disk utilization at 20% free.) Are you stuck with 4 indexers at 80% and one indexer at 0%? (Of course over time this will eventually correct itself, but that depends on the retention policy; this may work for a 90 day retention policy, but not if it's like a year.)
Is there a way to manually trigger bucket replication between two peers and then remove the copies from the original nodes? (Possibly using the Remove excess bucket copies process?)
