Hello Arcadius, why not simple moving to SolrCloud that already addresses fault tolerance and high availability ? Simply imagine a configuration of : 1 shard, factor of replciation 3. And you have even a better scenario than 2 masters and 1 slave.
Cheers 2014-06-17 14:43 GMT+01:00 Arcadius Ahouansou <[email protected]>: > Hello. > > > SolrCloud has been out for a while now. > > However, there are still many installations running Solr4 in the > traditional master-slave setup. > > > Currently, the Solr Master is the single point of failure of most > master-slave deployment. > > This could be easily addressed by having : > > > a- 2 independents Solr Masters running side-by-side and being fed > simultaneously, > > b- all slaves configured with masterUrl=masterUrl01,masterUrl02 (needs to > be implemented) > > c- by default, masterUrl01 will be used by all slaves. > > d- When the slaves catch an exception (like NoRouteToHostException or > ConnectionTimedOutException etc), they will retry a couple of times before > switching to using masterUrl02. > > > I suppose you have thought about this issue before. > > So I would like to know whether there are issues with such a simple > solution. > > This could also help deploy Solr across 2 different data-centers. > > > Thank you very much. > > > Arcadius. > > -- -------------------------- Benedetti Alessandro Visiting card : http://about.me/alessandro_benedetti "Tyger, tyger burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" William Blake - Songs of Experience -1794 England
