Re: Solr upgrade from 4.x to 7.1

2017-12-15 Thread Erick Erickson
What advantage do you see in TLOG and/or PULL replicas? The TLOG and PULL replica types are for some pretty specific use cases, particularly high-indexing-throughput cases where you can't afford to index each doc on every node in your cluster. If you can afford the CPU cycles to index on every

Re: Solr upgrade from 4.x to 7.1

2017-12-15 Thread Drooy Drooy
Hi Erick/Robi, Thanks for your replies! one more question, if I go with solrcloud and having PULL/TLOG replication mixed in the cluster, by the documentation, this would have Master/Slave mode benefit as well, does that seem feasible to you? are there any projects adopting this new feature in

Re: Solr upgrade from 4.x to 7.1

2017-12-15 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 12/14/2017 2:27 PM, Drooy Drooy wrote: > We have an in-house project running in Solr 4.7 with Master/Slave mode for > a few years, what is it going to take to upgrade it to SolrCloud with > TLOG/PULL replica mode ? > > I read the upgrade guides, none of them talking about the jump from 4.x to >

Re: Solr upgrade from 4.x to 7.1

2017-12-14 Thread Erick Erickson
Completely agree with Robert. I'd also add that you should _not_ copy your configs from 4x. Start with the 7x configs and add any customizations but don't change things like luceneMatchVersion and the like. If you simply _cannot_ reindex, take a look at

Re: Solr upgrade from 4.x to 7.1

2017-12-14 Thread Petersen, Robert (Contr)
>From what I have read, you can only upgrade to the next major version number >without using a tool to convert the indexes to the newer version. But that is >still perilous due to deprications etc So I think best advice out there is to spin up a new farm on 7.1 (especially from 4.x), make a