Increase default value for cluster.routing.allocation.cluster_concurrent_rebalance

[idegtiarenko]

Description

cluster.routing.allocation.cluster_concurrent_rebalance property is limiting the amount of shards that could be rebalanced simultaneously. The default value is 2 what is reasonable for a small amount of shards however it is becoming a bottleneck for a bigger clusters (10+ nodes).

Since new desired balance shard allocator is not affected by https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/87279 (effectively resolved by https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/93977) I believe we should change the default to allow big clusters to rebalance quicker.

The new default could be set to:

• 10 (or any other higher arbitrary number). This will not resolve the issue completely but will move the bottleneck a little further
• Make it dependent on the cluster size (for example allow 1 concurrent rebalance per every 2 nodes in cluster ro introduce a new setting such as cluster.routing.allocation.node_concurrent_recoveries_per_node). This approach will allow to scale the number with the cluster size
• -1 (or unlimited). This way the bottleneck would be defined by amount of incomming/outgoing recoveries the node could sustain: cluster.routing.allocation.node_concurrent_incoming_recoveries / cluster.routing.allocation.node_concurrent_outgoing_recoveries. This is the most aggresive option and it may delay the necessary shard movements (such as hot->warm tier migration) due to already ongoing rebalances.

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[idegtiarenko]

After discussing this with a team we decided that we should limit amount of rebalances per node level similar to cluster.routing.allocation.node_concurrent_incoming_recoveries / cluster.routing.allocation.node_concurrent_outgoing_recoveries (with default value of 1 per node) as this is the safest option