# Standalone clustering **URL:** \ **Category:** Dremio University\ **Created:** [March 17, 2021, 10:50am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/standalone-clustering/7152 "2021-03-17T10:50:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![levitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@levitha](https://community.dremio.com/u/levitha)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 10:50am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/standalone-clustering/7152/1 "2021-03-17T10:50:42Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/dremio/original/2X/9/9ef7cbdaa26ec710bd9bd54a7a1a5477aa9206f9.png) Hi iam using an external zookeeper 1 mastercoordinator 1 coordinator 1 executor when i stop the master coordinator ,the slave coordinator is not been selected as master coordinator ---
**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 6:29am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/standalone-clustering/7152/2 "2021-03-18T06:29:26Z")
@levitha Replied to you on your other thread > [@Zookeeper is not electing the slave node as master node](https://community.dremio.com/t/zookeeper-is-not-electing-the-slave-node-as-master-node/7111/5): > > @levitha Is the Dremio metadata on a NFS share, also the zoo keeper needs to be an external ZK. Would you mind sharing your dremio.conf file?