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This document describes, in detail, how to create and manage a rqlite cluster.
## Practical cluster size
Clusters of 3, 5, 7, or 9, nodes are most practical. Clusters with a greater number become unweildy.
Clusters of 3, 5, 7, or 9, nodes are most practical. Clusters with a greater number start to become unweildy.
## Clusters with an even-number of nodes
There is no point running clusters with even numbers of nodes. To see why this is imagine you have one cluster of 3 nodes, and a second cluter of 4 nodes. As usual a majority of nodes are required for each cluster to reach consensus on any change.
There is little point running clusters with even numbers of nodes. To see why this is imagine you have one cluster of 3 nodes, and a second cluter of 4 nodes. As usual a majority of nodes are required for each cluster to reach consensus on any change.
A majority is defined as `N/2 + 1` where `N` is the number of nodes in the cluster. For a 3-node a majority is 2; for a 4-node cluster a majority is 3. Therefore a 3-node cluster can tolerate the failure of a single node, and 4-node cluster can also only tolerate a failure of a single node.

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