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title: maxReplicasAllowed
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# maxReplicasAllowed

The `maxReplicasAllowed` setting is the maximum number of copies of primary index partitions that the index can support.

The default limit value of this is **3**.

## [](#example)Example

```console
curl -XPUT -H "Content-type:application/json" http://username:password@<ip>:8094/api/managerOptions \-d '{
    "maxReplicasAllowed": "2"
}
```