Managing Large Indexes

To improve overall performance of the search functionality, Oracle recommends that you specify a value for shards on the Search Options page (located on the Search Framework Administration menu).

Elasticsearch enables you to distribute the indexed data into partitions, and this distribution of indexed data into partitions is performed by Elasticsearch. It does not affect the indexing process in PeopleSoft Search Framework. The default value is 5 and it can be overridden.