diff --git a/pkg/render/elasticsearch.go b/pkg/render/elasticsearch.go
index 547d579a84..0c5fee908f 100644
--- a/pkg/render/elasticsearch.go
+++ b/pkg/render/elasticsearch.go
@@ -160,33 +160,25 @@ func (es elasticsearchComponent) pvcTemplate() corev1.PersistentVolumeClaim {
 
 // Generate the pod template required for the ElasticSearch nodes (controls the ElasticSearch container)
 func (es elasticsearchComponent) podTemplate() corev1.PodTemplateSpec {
-	// Setup default configuration for ES container
+	// Setup default configuration for ES container. For more information on managing resources, see:
+	// https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-managing-compute-resources.html and
+	// https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-jvm-heap-size.html#k8s-jvm-heap-size
+
 	esContainer := corev1.Container{
 		Name: "elasticsearch",
-		// Important note: Following Elastic ECK docs, the recommended practice is to set
-		// request and limit for memory to the same value:
-		// https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-managing-compute-resources.html#k8s-compute-resources-elasticsearch
-		//
-		// Default values for memory request and limit taken from ECK docs:
-		// https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-managing-compute-resources.html#k8s-default-behavior
 		Resources: corev1.ResourceRequirements{
 			Limits: corev1.ResourceList{
 				"cpu":    resource.MustParse("1"),
-				"memory": resource.MustParse("2Gi"),
+				"memory": resource.MustParse("4Gi"),
 			},
 			Requests: corev1.ResourceList{
-				"cpu":    resource.MustParse("1"),
-				"memory": resource.MustParse("2Gi"),
+				"cpu":    resource.MustParse("250m"),
+				"memory": resource.MustParse("4Gi"),
 			},
 		},
 		Env: []corev1.EnvVar{
-			// Important note: Following Elastic ECK docs, the recommendation is to set
-			// the Java heap size to half the size of RAM allocated to the Pod:
-			// https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-managing-compute-resources.html#k8s-compute-resources-elasticsearch
-			//
-			// Default values for Java Heap min and max taken from ECK docs:
-			// https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-jvm-heap-size.html#k8s-jvm-heap-size
-			{Name: "ES_JAVA_OPTS", Value: "-Xms1G -Xmx1G"},
+			// Set to 30% of the default memory, such that resources can be divided over ES, Lucene and ML.
+			{Name: "ES_JAVA_OPTS", Value: "-Xms1398101K -Xmx1398101K"},
 		},
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/render/elasticsearch_test.go b/pkg/render/elasticsearch_test.go
index 65b439d6d7..3dd4f2ea95 100644
--- a/pkg/render/elasticsearch_test.go
+++ b/pkg/render/elasticsearch_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package render_test
 
 import (
+	esalpha1 "github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/apis/elasticsearch/v1alpha1"
 	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
 	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
 	operator "github.com/tigera/operator/pkg/apis/operator/v1"
@@ -171,6 +172,22 @@ var _ = Describe("Elasticsearch rendering tests", func() {
 			{"tigera-secure", "tigera-kibana", "", "", ""},
 		}
 
+		resultES := resources[9].(*esalpha1.Elasticsearch).Spec.Nodes[0]
+		// There are no node selectors in the LogStorage CR, so we expect no node selectors in the Elasticsearch CR.
+		Expect(resultES.PodTemplate.Spec.NodeSelector).To(BeEmpty())
+		Expect(resultES.PodTemplate.Spec.NodeSelector).To(BeEmpty())
+
+		// Verify that the default container limist/requests are set.
+		esContainer := resultES.PodTemplate.Spec.Containers[0]
+		reqLimits := esContainer.Resources.Limits
+		reqResources := esContainer.Resources.Requests
+
+		Expect(reqLimits.Cpu().String()).To(Equal("1"))
+		Expect(reqLimits.Memory().String()).To(Equal("4Gi"))
+		Expect(reqResources.Cpu().String()).To(Equal("250m"))
+		Expect(reqResources.Memory().String()).To(Equal("4Gi"))
+		Expect(esContainer.Env[0].Value).To(Equal("-Xms1398101K -Xmx1398101K"))
+
 		for i, expectedRes := range expectedResources {
 			ExpectResource(resources[i], expectedRes.name, expectedRes.ns, expectedRes.group, expectedRes.version, expectedRes.kind)
 		}